Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet
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1 Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium 2 Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarund Meeresforschung, Postfach 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany 3 Scientific Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Teatralnaya 8-a, 354000 Sochi, Russia 4 Laboratoire de Glaciologie Polaire, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement (DSTE), Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP160/03, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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