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Ice-sheet uncertainty

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Gravity measurements of the ice-mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica are complicated by glacial isostatic adjustment. Simultaneous estimates of both signals confirm the negative trends in ice-sheet mass balance, but not their magnitude.

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Figure 1: Cumulative mass loss of Greenland's ice sheet.

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  1. David H. Bromwich and Julien P. Nicolas are in the Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, 1090 Carmack Road, 108 Scott Hall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. bromwich@polarmet1.mps.ohio-state.edu,

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Bromwich, D., Nicolas, J. Ice-sheet uncertainty. Nature Geosci 3, 596–597 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo946

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