Ice-Dammed Lake Drainage Evolution at Russell Glacier, West Greenland
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1 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Geography, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Arctic Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark, 5 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, 7 Department of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, Norway, 8 School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 9 Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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