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      "name": "Charles Amory"
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    {
      "name": "Erik Ivins"
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    {
      "name": "Michalea King"
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      "name": "Sophie Nowicki"
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      "name": "Eric Rignot"
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      "name": "Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel"
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      "name": "Karen Simon"
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      "name": "Tyler Sutterley"
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      "name": "Michiel van den Broeke"
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      "name": "Geruo A"
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      "name": "Cécile Agosta"
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      "name": "Pavel Ditmar"
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    {
      "name": "Xavier Fettweis"
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    {
      "name": "Rene Forsberg"
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      "name": "Alex Gardner"
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      "name": "Peter Langen"
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      "name": "Mathias Larsen"
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      "name": "Bryant Loomis"
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      "name": "Malcolm Mcmillan"
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      "name": "Daniele Melini"
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      "name": "Ruth Mottram"
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      "name": "Alan Muir"
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      "name": "Johan Nilsson"
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      "name": "Brice Noël"
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    {
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      "name": "Mònica Roca I Aparici"
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    {
      "name": "Ingo Sasgen"
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    {
      "name": "Himanshu Save"
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    {
      "name": "Bernd Scheuchl"
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    {
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    {
      "name": "Ki-Weon Seo"
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      "name": "Sebastian Simonsen"
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      "name": "Thomas Slater"
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      "name": "Giorgio Spada"
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      "name": "Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma"
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    {
      "name": "Nander Wever"
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    {
      "name": "David Wiese"
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    {
      "name": "Bert Wouters"
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  "published": "2026-09-16",
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  "title": "Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023",
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