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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Dear GLIMS colleagues
and Greenlandophiles,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">As with all papers in
The Cryosphere, this newly published one is open access, so you can freely download
and make use of the main paper and the high-resolution supplement from this
site:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">http://www.the-cryosphere.net/recent_papers.html</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Brief Communication: Greenland's shrinking
ice cover: "fast times" but not that fast</span></p></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">J. S. Kargel, A. P. Ahlstrøm,
R. B. Alley, J. L. Bamber, T. J. Benham, J. E. Box,
C. Chen, P. Christoffersen, M. Citterio, J. G. Cogley,
H. Jiskoot, G. J. Leonard, P. Morin, T. Scambos, T. Sheldon,
and I. Willis</span></p></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><b></b><b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">The Cryosphere, 6, 533-537, 2012</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">IGS will be hosting a 5-part blog series written by me on further details and bigger meaning of the Atlas fiasco (and the publisher's remarkable recovery from it). The blog is not out yet, but it will be soon. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">As we acknowledge in our paper and as detailed in the blog, the scientific response to the Times Atlas mistake was a tremendous community effort, and also included a constructive response by the publisher of the Times Atlas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Also, a topically related, news-making paper appeared late this
week in Science, and together these papers do very well for the subject: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
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Moon, I. Joughin, B. Smith, and I. Howatt, 2012, 21st-Century Evolution of
Greenland Outlet Glacier Velocities, SCIENCE May 4, 2012, 336 (3081), 576-578.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Cheers,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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major-latin"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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