GLIMS guidelines (tutorials, cookbooks, whatever)

[Bruce Raup]

Hi all,

Just to check my understanding of the status of GLIMS guidelines, who's
doing what, what the documents' themes are, how many there are, etc., I
would like your feedback and help in completion of the following.

There are four "guidelines" documents (which could be combined later):

Analysis Guidelines
  Status: ?
  Maintainer:  Flagstaff people?
  Location: ?
  Purpose:
    To guide users through the general process of GLIMS analysis,
    addressing points such as:
      - where to locate the GLIMS glacier ID
      - what the minimum requirements for submission are
      - how to deal with the branching structure of a glacier system
      - how to resolve the glacier boundary versus basin boundary issue
      - ...


Data Transfer Guidelines
  Status:  in terse form, on the GLIMS web site under "Database
           Description"
  Maintainer: Bruce Raup
  Location:
    http://www.GLIMS.org/datatransfer/data_transfer_specification.html
  Purpose:
    To document the data transfer format, what is required or optional, and
    what to do in strange cases.


Glacier Parameters Guidelines
  Status:  in early stages(?), in the form of Fabian Mauz's pictoral
           dictionary of WGMS/GLIMS parameters
  Maintainer: ?
  Location: ?
  Purpose:
    To clearly define all the glacier descriptors and characteristics
    storable in the GLIMS database, including the WGMS glacier
    characteristics (frontal characteristics, etc.), valids for
    features/materials on the left/right of segments, snowline, average
    slopes (e.g. derived from DEM, or from two point elevations), etc.


Algorithms Guidelines
  Status:  Good start; summarizes various algorithms
  Maintainer:  Andreas Kaeaeb
  Location: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~kaeaeb/glims/algor.html
  Purpose:
    To document (summarize?) algorithms that are or may be used in GLIMS.



We need to fill in the question marks and get these things growing.

Thanks,
Bruce

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Bruce Raup
National Snow and Ice Data Center                     Phone:  303-492-8814
University of Colorado, 449 UCB                       Fax:    303-492-2468
Boulder, CO  80309-0449                                    braup at nsidc.org