World Glacier Inventory

Data Contributors BEDFORD, DAN P. ECHELMEYER, KEITH A. HOELZLE, MARTIN KOTLYAKOV, VLADAMIR VALENTINE, VIRGINIA CHEN, XIANZHANG CHERNOVA, LYUDMILA Parameters GLACIERS Instruments CAMERAS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

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The World Glacier Inventory contains information for over 100,000 glaciers through out the world. Parameters within the inventory include geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation,and classification of morphological type and moraines. The inventory entries are based upon a single observation in time and can be viewed as a 'snapshot' of the glacier at this time. The core of this collection is data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich. The development of the data product was funded through NOAA's Environmental Services Data and Information Management (ESDIM) program.

As of May 2011, NSIDC is working with the WGMS to plan an update to the inventory in line with the work of Cogley (2010).

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Data Citation

National Snow and Ice Data Center. 1999, updated 2009. World glacier inventory. World Glacier Monitoring Service and National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. Boulder, CO. Digital media.

See Also

• World Glacier Map Viewer
• Glacier Photograph Collection
• All About Glaciers
• World Glacier Monitoring Service
• GLIMS Data at NSIDC
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