Glaciological noise

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Term: Glaciological noise
Definition: In an ice core, fluctuations in layer thicknesses that are due not to variations in the rate of spatially averaged Annual accumulation but to redistribution of snow by the wind, including the migration of snow dunes and sastrugi across the core site.  IHPGlacierMassBalance 

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