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Sea-ice dynamics strongly promote Snowball Earth initiation and destabilize tropical sea-ice margins
A. Voigt
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
D. S. Abbot
University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
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