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Annual amplitude or turnover of glacier volume change α = (|bw| + |bs|)/2 calculated from long-term series (23 glaciers) of winter (bw) and summer (bs) glacier mass balances; also shown are annual fluctuations of globally averaged winter balance and their year-to-year standard deviation (sbw).
