Accumulation Rates during 1311–2011 CE in North-Central Greenland Derived from Air-Borne Radar Data
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1 Centre for Ice and Climate, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polarund Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany, 3 Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 4 Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 5 Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 6 Department of Crystallography, Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2016