[GLIMS] east Africa data

[Bruce RAUP]

Hi Katie,

The RGI version 6 region 16 file does indeed include outlines for the 
three glacierized locations in East Africa:  Rwenzori Range, Kilimanjaro,
and Mt. Kenya.  The hypsometry data are included, in the file
"16_rgi60_LowLatitudes_hypso.csv".  If you're visualizing the data in QGIS
or similar, the default view will be zoomed out enough to include the Andes
and Irian Jaya, so it's easy to miss the tiny African glacier outlines.

The data file I'm referring to is

http://www.glims.org/RGI/rgi60_files/16_rgi60_LowLatitudes.zip

If you have technical difficulties with this file that won't be of general
interest, feel free to write me directly.

Cheers,
Bruce


2020-03-24, 03:03:  katie davies wrote:

> To whoever this may concern,
>
> I am writing my dissertation for Durham University on glaciers in East 
> Africa. I was wanting to use the Randolph Inventories hysometry data in 
> my project, however the low latitudes summary does not extend to the 
> region of East Africa. I assume the code for east Africa is RGI60-16.03 
> however the data appears to not extend this far. I was just wondering if 
> I was looking at the wrong file or if you could show my where I could 
> find such data,
>
> many thanks,
>
> Katie Davies
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