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Antarctic Ice Shelf Exploration - Part 5: Understanding the impact of exploration on climate change
The first decades of the twenty-first century ushered in a new era of evidence. Satellite imagery streamed continuous measurements while oceanography traced heat paths beneath the ice. What had been incremental, season by season, decade by decade, suddenly entered a new, higher-resolution conversation. The ice shelves that had been mapped by flights and cores now revealed themselves in near-real-time, changing with alarming speed.
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