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Repeat warming in Greenland

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Greenland's glaciers have lost significant amounts of ice over the past decade. Rediscovered historical images of the ice margin show a record of southeast Greenland's response to the last major warming event in the 1930s.

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Figure 1: The Heinkel hydroplane after returning from a surveying mission during Knud Rasmussen's expedition to Greenland.

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  1. Benjamin E. Smith is at the Polar Science Center of the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Box 355640, Seattle, Washington 98105-6698, USA,

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