A new global gridded glacier dataset based on the Randolph Glacier Inventory version 6.0

• Published in: Journal of glaciology Vol. 67; no. 264; pp. 773 - 776
• Main Authors: Li, Yaojun, Li, Fei, Shangguan, Donghui, Ding, Yongjian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Climatological research; Consortia; Data; Datasets; Glacier cover; glacier delineation; glacier geophysics; glacier mapping; Glacier research; Glaciers; Ice sheets; Polygons; United States > US; Western Canada; Central Asia; Central Europe; Scandinavia; Iceland; South Asia; Caucasus; Middle East; New Zealand; Canada; Arctic region; Alaska; North Asia; Greenland; glacier geophysics; glacier delineation; Glacier cover; glacier mapping

Gridded glacier datasets are essential for various glaciological and climatological research because they link glacier cover with the corresponding gridded meteorological variables. However, there are significant differences between the gridded data and the shapefile data in the total area calculati...