© 2008 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. LETTERS Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered
Observations over the past decades show a rapid acceleration of several outlet glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica1. One of the largest changes is a sudden switch of Jakobshavn Isbræ, a large outlet glacier feeding a deep-ocean fjord on Greenland’s west coast, from slow thickening to rapid thinning...
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