@article{b3a5fa600f3b48b08acc0b7e74e41b11,
title = "Brief communication: Greenland's shrinking ice cover: fast times but not that fast",
abstract = "A map of Greenland in the 13th edition (2011) of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World made headlines because the publisher's media release mistakenly stated that the permanent ice cover had shrunk 15% since the previous 10th edition (1999) revision. The claimed shrinkage was immediately challenged by glaciologists, then retracted by the publisher. Here we show: (1) accurate maps of ice extent based on 1978/87 aerial surveys and recent MODIS imagery; and (2) shrinkage at 0.019% a -1 in ∼50 000 km 2 of ice in a part of east Greenland that is shown as ice-free in the Times Atlas.",
author = "J.S. Kargel and A.P. Ahlstr{\o}m and R.B. Alley and J.L. Bamber and T.J. Benham and J.E. Box and C. Chen and P. Christoffersen and M. Citterio and J.G. Cogley and H. Jiskoot and G.J. Leonard and P. Morin and T. Scambos and T. Sheldon and I. Willis",
note = "Funding Information: The following researchers contributed strains from Canada: Karen Vanderwolf, Donald McAlpine, Scott McBurney, David Overy, and Durda Slavic. We thank Vishnu Chaturvedi for sharing his isolates from the United States. The research presented here is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (J.X.), McMaster Institute of Infectious Disease Research Fellowship (J.A.), and by Ontario Graduate Scholarship (A.F.). The authors declare no competing interests. J.X. designed the study, A.F. conducted the arthroconidial germination experiment, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, and statistical analysis, V.G. performed part of the arthroconidial germination experiment, J.A. conducted colony phenotype assays, and A.F. and J.X. drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.",
year = "2012",
month = may,
day = "4",
doi = "10.5194/tc-6-533-2012",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
pages = "533--537",
journal = "Cryosphere",
issn = "1994-0416",
publisher = "Copernicus Publications",
number = "3",
}