The field of data science is emerging to discover the laws that govern this species of data, while cloud computing is quickly eliminating constraints on data accumulation and storage.

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Koenig hopes more radar data will help shed light on Greenland's snow accumulation.

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Data for the first couple of weeks of September indicate reserve accumulation is on the pick-up after a substantial slowdown in August.

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