Global glacier changes
| Cobertura |
MEDIAN LATITUDE: 13.817313 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -16.458542 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: -82.060000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -159.280000 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 83.120000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 171.670000 |
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| Data(s) |
19/07/2008
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| Resumo |
Changes in glaciers and ice caps provide some of the clearest evidence of climate change, and as such they constitute key variables for early detection strategies in global climate-related observations. These changes have impacts on global sea level fluctuations, the regional to local natural hazard situation, as well as on societies dependent on glacier meltwater. Internationally coordinated collection and publication of standardised information about ongoing glacier changes was initiated back in 1894. The compiled data sets on the global distribution and changes in glaciers and ice caps provide the backbone of the numerous scientific publications on the latest findings about surface ice on land. Since the very beginning, the compiled data has been published by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and its predecessor organisations. However, the corresponding data tables, formats and meta-data are mainly of use to specialists. |
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application/zip, 2 datasets |
| Identificador |
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786382 doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.786382 |
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en |
| Publicador |
PANGAEA |
| Direitos |
CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted |
| Fonte |
Supplement to: World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2000-2005. In: Haeberli, W; Zemp, M; Kääb, A; Paul, F; Hoelzle, M (eds.), ICSU (FAGS) / IUGG (IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO / WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland, IX, 266 pp, hdl:10013/epic.39784.d001 |
| Palavras-Chave | #(geodetic) thickness or volume changes; Area; Area/locality; Avalanche; Calving; Calving instability; Code; Country; Date; Date/time end; Date/time start; first reference year, (geodetic) thickness or volume changes; first reference year, front variation; first survey year, (geodetic) thickness or volume changes; first survey year, front variation; first survey year,mass balance; Flood; front variation; general; Glacier; Glacier surge; Glac surge; Glavier flood; Ice avalanche; ID; Identification; last survey year, (geodetic) thickness or volume changes; last survey year, front variation; last survey year,mass balance; Latitude; LATITUDE; Longitude; LONGITUDE; mass balance; national code; NOBS; Number of observations; ORDINAL NUMBER; Ord No; Other event; specific; Tectonic; Tectonic event; WGMS_ID |
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