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Science 17 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5763, pp. 963 - 964
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124190
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
The Greenland Ice Sheet and Global Sea-Level Rise

Julian A. Dowdeswell

The flow of several large glaciers draining the Greenland Ice Sheet is accelerating. This change, combined with increased melting, suggests that existing estimates of future sea-level rise are too low.

The author is at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK. E-mail: jd16{at}cam.ac.uk

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