Inferring Firn Permeability from Pneumatic Testing: A Case Study on the Greenland Ice Sheet
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1 Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, 2 Apex Companies, LLC, Boulder, CO, USA, 3 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, 4 Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 5 Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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