<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4005"><span>Best wishes to all.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4005" dir="ltr"><span>regards</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4005" dir="ltr"><span>rodrigo</span></div><br> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4006"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4042" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4041"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4040"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4039"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4044"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Bruce RAUP <braup@nsidc.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> GLIMS Mailing List <glims@nsidc.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Samedi 2 janvier 2016 13h32<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [GLIMS] 2015 year-end summary<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1451850144989_4046"><br>Hello all,<br><br>The year 2015 was wonderfully productive for GLIMS. We want to thank<br>everyone who contributed data, ideas, funds, or sweat to the GLIMS<br>initiative over the last year. Here are some highlights of major<br>developments:<br><br>- We have a new single point of contact for both GLIMS and RGI: If you<br> have data to contribute to GLIMS and RGI, sending email to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org" href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org">glacierdata@nsidc.org</a> will notify both groups. For transfer of large<br> files, ask in your message about our new FTP site for the purpose.<br><br>- We have a new online map application for viewing GLIMS (and other)<br> glacier data. See<br><br> <a href="http://www.glims.org/maps/glims" target="_blank">http://www.glims.org/maps/glims</a><br><br>- Leadership of GLIMS has changed. Jeff Kargel handed the reins over to<br> me, and a new GLIMS Core Team will be announced shortly.<br><br>- We have developed more tools at NSIDC for handling contributed data. In<br> the past, data contributors needed to put glacier data into a prescribed<br> format. While that format still does make ingest easier, we can now<br> handle more variations, as long as the relevant information is included.<br> If you have data you'd like to contribute but aren't sure about its<br> format, let us know at <a ymailto="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org" href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org">glacierdata@nsidc.org</a> and we can help figure out<br> how to get the data into GLIMS.<br><br>- We continue to merge the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) into GLIMS and<br> to ingest data sets from other sources. New data added in 2015 include<br> glacier outlines and related data for:<br><br> - RGI: Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands; Greenland periphery; New<br> Zealand (redone to include hypsometry from RGI 5.0); Arctic Canada;<br> low-latitude glaciers; southern South America<br><br> - Iran<br><br>- Some updates have been made to personnel records in the GLIMS database<br> (send me your updates if you have more)<br><br>- A GLIMS meeting was held during AGU in San Francisco on December 14.<br> We discussed recent GLIMS activity, both at NSIDC and globally.<br><br><br>Some plans for the year ahead:<br><br>- Our new service-oriented architecture, completed last month, enables<br> better interactive maps, more flexible download interfaces, more download<br> options (more data types, RGI data model, etc.), and ease of maintenance.<br> We will continue to build on this to make GLIMS data easier and more<br> flexible to use.<br><br>- GLIMS is one component of the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers<br> (GTN-G, <a href="http://www.gtn-g.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gtn-g.org/</a>). We expect to continue to strengthen ties<br> between different glacier-related institutions and glacier information<br> sources. We also hope to announce more frequent updates to databases and<br> summaries of holdings.<br><br>- We will enhance GLIMS to provide new glacier data: surface velocity<br> fields, glacier front positions, center lines, outline time series.<br><br>- We will begin to implement a work flow so that all glacier outlines are<br> augmented with topographic information (including hypsometry) and center<br> lines.<br><br>If you have comments or suggestions for the GLIMS team, I would be happy to<br>hear them at <a ymailto="mailto:braup@nsidc.org." href="mailto:braup@nsidc.org.">braup@nsidc.org.</a> Suggestions for both GLIMS and RGI can be<br>sent to <a ymailto="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org." href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org.">glacierdata@nsidc.org.</a> We welcome your input and continued<br>involvement.<br><br><br>Best wishes for 2016,<br>Bruce<br><br>-- <br>Bruce H. RAUP<br>National Snow and Ice Data Center<br>University of Colorado<br>449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309<br>Phone: 303-492-8814<br><a href="http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/" target="_blank">http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>GLIMS mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:GLIMS@nsidc.org" href="mailto:GLIMS@nsidc.org">GLIMS@nsidc.org</a><br><a href="https://nsidc.org/mailman/listinfo/glims" target="_blank">https://nsidc.org/mailman/listinfo/glims</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>