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Fig. 6. Snow depth on Arctic sea ice at the end of winter, prior to melt onset. Recent in situ measurements (stars) at a variety of field sites, as well as airborne observations (dots along multiple flight survey lines) are overlaid on the climatological mean snow depth for the months of March and April (adapted from Warren et al., 1999).
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