Glacier Name or Number Search

This search will return only those records that exactly match your entry. Not all glaciers have names, but all glaciers have numbers.
Note: If you search by glacier name or number, you cannot refine your search by addtional parameters.

Glacier name

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Glacier number

Glacier Parameters Search

Search by geographic cooridnates (lat/lon), altitude/size/length, data contributor, and glacier features such as primary class, form, frontal characteristic, longitudinal profile, major source of nourishment, and tongue activity.

Geographic Coordinates

If no latitude or longitude is specified, the search defaults to the full geographical range.

Enter values in decimal degrees

Altitude, Size, and Length

If you specify a minimum value, you must also specify a maximum value.

Data Contributor Search

Search the database by Data Contributor.
Note: The items listed in this drop down are an abbreviation of the full data contributor citation. To see the complete citation, see the Data Contributor Table.

Data Contributor ANY 1-WGMS 2-Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science 3-WDC-Glaciology, Lanzhou 4-University of Alaska, Fairbanks 5-Weidick 6-Bhagat/Mool/Sah 7-WDC-Glaciology, Lanzhou 8-Garin 9-Hagen 10-Trent University 11-Holdgate and Baker 12-Langenegger and Verwoerd 13-Institut Géographique National 14-Trent University 15-U.S. Geological Survey, Tacoma 16-Ames 17-Kaul 18-Katalog Lednikow SSSR 19-Sedov 20-Gellatly 21-WGMS 1993 22-Lorenzo/White 23-Allison and Peterson 24-Aniya 1998 25-Aniya 1996 26-Casassa 27-Rivera and Casassa 28-Bertone 29-Fernandez 30-Schneider 31-Calkin 32-Trent University 33-WGMS 34-CEAZA 35-University of Alaska, Fairbanks 36-Sigurosson/Arendt 37-Rau

Glacier Features

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