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There are 100,000 glaciers in Alaska, covering 28,000 sq mi. The glaciers are losing 75 billion tons of ice EVERY YEAR. 🧊 That can flood the state with up to a foot of water - something scientists at @uafairbanks, @UW, and @USGS are quickly studying. ht
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Surface melt dominates Alaska glacier mass balance https://t.co/S7YpFwiNhC
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Yes headline ignores specific measurement of ice volume change from GRACE, Laser altimetry and ICESat See Larsen et al (2015) https://t.co/9kmStCHndJ or Wouters et al (2019) https://t.co/5LV1segj0t or Zemp et al (2019) https://t.co/UJam6WFbjf