<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Mikala Beig<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the note. Just as a correction, your statement 'a new version is published approximately annually' is incorrect. Whereas we certainly intend creating further versions of this dataset, there is no schedule for it. </div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, Frank Paul <br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 24, 2022, at 12:35 AM, Mikala Beig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Access to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Randolph Glacier Inventory<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and documentation are provided on the data set web pages at NSIDC:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Version 1:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/p9yk-6m11" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(18, 107, 186); ">https://doi.org/10.7265/p9yk-6m11</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Version 2:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/2" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/cc6e-zp12" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">https://doi.org/</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">10.7265/cc6e-zp12</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><br>Version 3.2:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/3" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/s6rk-h703" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">https://doi.org/</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">10.7265/s6rk-h703</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Version 4:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/4" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI:</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(23, 43, 77); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/bse7-r330" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">https://doi.org/10.7265/bse7-r330</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Version 5: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/5" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/gq4p-zz56" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">https://doi.org/</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 245, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">10.7265/gq4p-zz56</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Version 6:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0770/versions/6" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data set DOI: </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.7265/4m1f-gd79" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data authors: RGI Consortium</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Data center: NSIDC DAAC (</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 114, 196); "><a href="https://nsidc.org/daac" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(68, 114, 196); ">https://nsidc.org/daac</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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