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Figure 8.1.
The location of GC-Net automatic weather stations in Greenland (marked +)
and coastal settlements (from Steffen and Box,
2001
, by permission of AGU).
estimated at 3,367 m. The estimated ice volume is 2.93 × 10
6
km
3
(Bamber
et al.,
2001
). With adjustment for isostatic rebound, the water locked up in the
Greenland ice sheet corresponds to an approximate global sea level equivalent of
7.2 m. By comparison, the much larger Antarctic ice sheet, which covers about
