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Original Articles

CryoSheds: a GIS modeling framework for delineating land-ice watersheds for the Greenland Ice Sheet

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Pages 707-722 | Received 14 Oct 2015, Accepted 25 Aug 2016, Published online: 21 Sep 2016

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