Greenland is losing ice through glaciers that flow into deep fjords. New observations highlight the important fjord processes that supply warm ocean waters to the melting glaciers, and thereby affect Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise.
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MICHELE KOPPES
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Holland, P. Warm bath for an ice sheet. Nature Geosci 3, 147–148 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo801
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