Area change of USGS Benchmark Glaciers
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Area change of USGS Benchmark Glaciers. Color represents glacier area at multiple time-steps between 1950s (blue hues) and Present (red hues). Glacier outlines available in a USGS data release (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R8BP3K).
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