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Springer Praxis Books Geophysical Sciences

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Jeffrey S. Kargel • Gregory J. Leonard Michael P. Bishop • Andreas Ka¨a¨b Bruce H. Raup Editors

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

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Editors Jeffrey S. Kargel Department of Hydrology and Water Resources University of Arizona Tucson, AZ USA Gregory J. Leonard Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Global Land Ice Measurements from Space University of Arizona Tuscon, AZ USA

Andreas Kääb Department of Geosciences University of Oslo Oslo Norway Bruce H. Raup University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO USA

Michael P. Bishop Department of Geography Texas A&M University College Station, TX USA

Published in association with Praxis Publishing Chichester, UK Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com/ ISSN 1615-9748 ISBN 978-3-540-79817-0 ISBN 978-3-540-79818-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7

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Contents

Dedication

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List of contributors

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Foreword by Hugh H. Kieffer

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Acknowledgments

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