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This data set consists of glacier regime parameters observed between 1945 and 2003. Data include annual mass balances, ablation, accumulation, and equilibrium-line altitude of mountain and subpolar glaciers outside the two major ice sheets. All available sources of information, such as publications, archived data, and personal communications have been collected, and include time series of about 280 glaciers. Data have been digitized and quality checked. The data are available on CD-ROM from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) when a hardcopy of INSTAAR Occasional Paper #55 is ordered, and by FTP from NSIDC.
NSIDC strongly encourages you to register as a user of this data product. As a registered user, you will be notified of updates and corrections. When registering, please include the title of this data set, INSTAAR Occasional Paper #55 Glacier Mass Balance and Regime: Data of Measurements and Analysis.
Dyurgerov, M. 2002, updated 2005. Glacier mass balance and regime measurements and analysis, 1945-2003, edited by M. Meier and R. Armstrong. Boulder, CO: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. Distributed by National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO.
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Microsoft Excel files, and PDF |
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worldwide |
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1945-2003 |
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largest file is 1.2 MB |
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mass balance, ablation, accumulation, and equilibrium-line altitude |
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1. Contacts and Acknowledgments
2. Detailed Data Description
3. Document Information
Mark Dyurgerov
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
NSIDC User Services
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This study was supported by a State Department Grant to M. Dyurgerov in 1993-94; and NSF Grants OPP-9530782, OPP-9634289 to M. Meier, M. Dyurgerov, R. Armstrong and J. Dwyer in 1996-2000. The final stage of this work has been supported by NSF Grant BCS-0099236. The authors are very thankful to many of their colleagues all over the world for sending additional data, in particular to: L. Andreassen, H. Björnsson, L. Braun, T. Chinn, G.Cogley, H. Conway, A. Fountain, M. Funk, J.-O. Hagen, S. Hastenrath, P. Jansson, V. Konovalov, R. Koerner, R. Krimmel, M. Kuhn, V. Kuzmichenok, A. Marcus, R. Martines Costa, M. Miller, Yu. Narozhniy, G. Østrem, M. Pelto, F. Pertziger, V. Popovnin, L. A. Rasmussen, O. Reinwarth, O. Sigurdsson, V. Uvarov, and Zichu Xie. The investigator thanks Carissa Carter for assistance in preparation of the final version for publication and also wishes to thank Graham Cogley, Simon Ommanney, Bruce Raup and Mary Jo Brodzik for their comments and data verification.
Data are in Microsoft Excel format, and also provided in PDF
The following files are found on the FTP site:
Occasional_Paper55/
appendix_1.xls
appendix_2.xls
appendix_3.xls
appendix_4.xls
instaar_occasional_paper_no55.pdf
Supplement2005/
App1_Supplement2005.doc
App2_Supplement2005.xls
App3_Supplement2005.xls
App4_Supplement2005.xls
App5_Supplement2005.xls
App5_Supplement2005.xls
SupplementPaper2005.doc
SupplementPaper2005.pdf
ReadMeFirst.txt
An explanation of the appendix data is included in the pdf file, beginning on p. 91.
Largest file is 1.2 MB.
Coverage is worldwide.
Observational data cover the period 1945 to 2003.
Mass balance, ablation, accumulation, and equilibrium-line altitude of 280 glaciers are given, based on observational studies reported in publications, archived data, personal communications..
Data have been digitized and quality checked; all errors found were eliminated.
March 2002
April 2005
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g10002_instaar_glacier_mass_balance_regime/index.html