[GLIMS] 2015 year-end summary

[aparna shukla]

A very happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year- 2016 to all.

Regards,
Aparna

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Bruce RAUP <braup at nsidc.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The year 2015 was wonderfully productive for GLIMS.  We want to thank
> everyone who contributed data, ideas, funds, or sweat to the GLIMS
> initiative over the last year.  Here are some highlights of major
> developments:
>
> - We have a new single point of contact for both GLIMS and RGI:  If you
>   have data to contribute to GLIMS and RGI, sending email to
>   glacierdata at nsidc.org will notify both groups.  For transfer of large
>   files, ask in your message about our new FTP site for the purpose.
>
> - We have a new online map application for viewing GLIMS (and other)
>   glacier data.  See
>
>   http://www.glims.org/maps/glims
>
> - Leadership of GLIMS has changed.  Jeff Kargel handed the reins over to
>   me, and a new GLIMS Core Team will be announced shortly.
>
> - We have developed more tools at NSIDC for handling contributed data.  In
>   the past, data contributors needed to put glacier data into a prescribed
>   format.  While that format still does make ingest easier, we can now
>   handle more variations, as long as the relevant information is included.
>   If you have data you'd like to contribute but aren't sure about its
>   format, let us know at glacierdata at nsidc.org and we can help figure out
>   how to get the data into GLIMS.
>
> - We continue to merge the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) into GLIMS and
>   to ingest data sets from other sources.  New data added in 2015 include
>   glacier outlines and related data for:
>
>    - RGI:  Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands; Greenland periphery; New
>      Zealand (redone to include hypsometry from RGI 5.0); Arctic Canada;
>      low-latitude glaciers; southern South America
>
>    - Iran
>
> - Some updates have been made to personnel records in the GLIMS database
>   (send me your updates if you have more)
>
> - A GLIMS meeting was held during AGU in San Francisco on December 14.
>   We discussed recent GLIMS activity, both at NSIDC and globally.
>
>
> Some plans for the year ahead:
>
> - Our new service-oriented architecture, completed last month, enables
>   better interactive maps, more flexible download interfaces, more download
>   options (more data types, RGI data model, etc.), and ease of maintenance.
>   We will continue to build on this to make GLIMS data easier and more
>   flexible to use.
>
> - GLIMS is one component of the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers
>   (GTN-G, http://www.gtn-g.org/).  We expect to continue to strengthen
> ties
>   between different glacier-related institutions and glacier information
>   sources.  We also hope to announce more frequent updates to databases and
>   summaries of holdings.
>
> - We will enhance GLIMS to provide new glacier data:  surface velocity
>   fields, glacier front positions, center lines, outline time series.
>
> - We will begin to implement a work flow so that all glacier outlines are
>   augmented with topographic information (including hypsometry) and center
>   lines.
>
> If you have comments or suggestions for the GLIMS team, I would be happy to
> hear them at braup at nsidc.org.  Suggestions for both GLIMS and RGI can be
> sent to glacierdata at nsidc.org.  We welcome your input and continued
> involvement.
>
>
> Best wishes for 2016,
> Bruce
>
> --
> Bruce H. RAUP
> National Snow and Ice Data Center
> University of Colorado
> 449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
> Phone:  303-492-8814
> http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/
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