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Nature Geoscience 2, 93 - 94 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo424

Subject Category: Cryospheric science

Glaciology: From the front

Stephen Price1

  1. Stephen Price is with the COSIM project, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
    e-mail: sprice@lanl.gov


The causes of recent dynamic thinning of Greenland's outlet glaciers have been debated. Realistic simulations suggest that changes at the marine fronts of these glaciers are to blame, implying that dynamic thinning will cease once the glaciers retreat to higher ground.

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