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Dartmouth Arctic Precipitation Study

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Ben Kopec, a Ph.D. candidate in Dartmouth College's Department of Earth Sciences, and his colleagues find that the melting of sea ice will significantly increase Arctic precipitation, creating a climate feedback comparable to doubling global carbon dioxide.

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