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A history of Greenland's ice loss

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Aerial photographs, remote-sensing observations and geological evidence together provide a reconstruction of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since 1900 — a great resource for climate scientists. See Letter p.396

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Figure 1: The Upernavik Ice Stream in northwest Greenland.

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  1. Beata M. Csatho is in the Department of Geological Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.,

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