An Empirical Approach for Estimating Stress-Coupling Lengths for Marine-Terminating Glaciers
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Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA, 2 School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA, 3 Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, USA, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA, Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 6 Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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