John Turner and Josefino Comiso call for a coordinated push to crack the baffling rise and fall of sea ice around Antarctica.
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Turner, J., Comiso, J. Solve Antarctica’s sea-ice puzzle. Nature 547, 275–277 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/547275a
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