<div dir="ltr">A very happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year- 2016 to all.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Aparna</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Bruce RAUP <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:braup@nsidc.org" target="_blank">braup@nsidc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org" target="_blank">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>
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<a href="http://www.glims.org/maps/glims" rel="noreferrer" 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 href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org" target="_blank">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/" rel="noreferrer" 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 href="mailto:braup@nsidc.org" target="_blank">braup@nsidc.org</a>. Suggestions for both GLIMS and RGI can be<br>
sent to <a href="mailto:glacierdata@nsidc.org" target="_blank">glacierdata@nsidc.org</a>. We welcome your input and continued<br>
involvement.<br>
<br>
<br>
Best wishes for 2016,<br>
Bruce<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><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/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Dr. Aparna Shukla<br>Scientist C,</b><div><b>Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology,<br>33, General Mahadeo Singh Road,<br>Dehradun - 248001.<br></b><b>Email: <a href="mailto:aparna.shukla22@gmail.com" target="_blank">aparna.shukla22@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:aparna@wihg.res.in" target="_blank">aparna@wihg.res.in</a> </b></div><div><b><br> </b></div></div></div></div>
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