Canadian cryospheric response to an anomalous warm summer: A synthesis of the climate change action fund project “the state of the arctic cryosphere during the extreme warm summer of 1998”

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• Corresponding author's e‐mail: [email protected]; current affiliation ‐ International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 930 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks AK 99775–7335
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• Current Affiliation ‐ Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK
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