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Title

Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century

Abstract

The long-term response of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document length fluctuations of >1,000 land-terminating peripheral glaciers in Greenland over more than a century. We find that their rate of retreat over the last two decades is double that of the twentieth century, indicating a ubiquitous transition into a new, accelerated state of downwasting.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7cj8jg0

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

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Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

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Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

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reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Dataset reference date

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publication

effective date

2023-12-09T00:00:00Z

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Use constraints

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

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contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

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