[GLIMS] "Year maps" feature now available

[Bruce RAUP]

Hi all,

I hope everyone is doing well while hunkered down.

The "year maps" feature, also sometimes called "RGI on demand", is now 
available at glims.org.  It is still experimental and imperfect, but I 
hope it will make easier the task of downloading GLIMS data as of a 
particular date.  We welcome your feedback.

Whether downloading via the map interface 
(http://www.glims.org/maps/glims), a query on a particular glacier, or the
text-search interface (http://www.glims.org/maps/textsearch/), the download
page now offers an additional choice:  "GLIMS (multi-temporal) data", or
"Snapshot (RGI) data".  If you select the second option, you can enter
a date for which you want GLIMS glacier data.  The outlines in the database
with as-of dates closest to the selected date will be packaged up for you.
An additional attribute is included:  the number of days between your
target date and the as-of date of the outline.  You can use this to filter
out data that are too far in time from your selected date for your
application.

Best regards,
Bruce

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Bruce H. RAUP
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
Phone:  303-492-8814
cires.colorado.edu/~braup/
GLIMS:  www.glims.org