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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>All versions (1-6) of the </span><i><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>Randolph Glacier Inventory - A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines </span></i><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>are now</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'> accessible through the National Snow and Ice Data Center </span><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>. This data set contains</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica'> a global set of glacier outlines, is intended to provide a snapshot of the world’s glaciers, and includes a single outline for each glacier. It is produced in coordination with the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) initiative. The data set spans from 1 January 1950 to 31 December 2010 and a new version is published approximately annually.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Access to the <i>Randolph Glacier Inventory </i>and documentation are provided on the data set web pages at NSIDC: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Version 1: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/1"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>1</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/p9yk-6m11"><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#126BBA'>https://doi.org/10.7265/p9yk-6m11</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Version 2: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/2"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/2</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/cc6e-zp12"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://doi.org/</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;background:#F4F5F7'>10.7265/cc6e-zp12</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><br>Version 3.2: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/3"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/3</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/s6rk-h703"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://doi.org/</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;background:#F4F5F7'>10.7265/s6rk-h703</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Version 4: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/4"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/4</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI:</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#172B4D;background:#F4F5F7'> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/bse7-r330"><span style='font-family:Helvetica;background:#F4F5F7'>https://doi.org/10.7265/bse7-r330</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Version 5: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/5"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/5</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/gq4p-zz56"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://doi.org/</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;background:#F4F5F7'>10.7265/gq4p-zz56</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Version 6: </span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/6"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/6</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/4m1f-gd79"><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>https://doi.org/10.7265/4m1f-gd79</span></a><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data authors: RGI Consortium</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Data center: NSIDC DAAC (</span><span style='color:#4472C4'><a href="https://nsidc.org/daac"><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#4472C4'>https://nsidc.org/daac</span></a></span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS (</span><span style='color:#4472C4'><a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/"><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#4472C4'>https://earthdata.nasa.gov</span></a></span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#4472C4'>)</span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>If you have questions, please contact the User Services Office at </span><span style='color:#4472C4'><a href="mailto:nsidc@nsidc.org"><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#4472C4'>nsidc@nsidc.org</span></a></span><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>NSIDC DAAC <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal 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