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GlaThiDa

https://www.gtn-g.ch/glathida/

Description

Internationally collected, standardized dataset on glacier thickness from in-situ and remotely sensed observations, based on data submissions, literature review and airborne data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge.

Bug reports, data submissions, and other issues should be posted to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.com/wgms/glathida/-/issues.

Citation

GlaThiDa Consortium (2020): Glacier Thickness Database 3.1.0. World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland. DOI: 10.5904/wgms-glathida-2020-10

Welty, E., Zemp, M., Navarro, F., Huss, M., Fürst, J.J., Gärtner-Roer, I., Landmann, J., Machguth, H., Naegeli, K., Andreassen, L.M., Farinotti, D., Li, H., and GlaThiDa Contributors (2020): Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations. Earth System Science Data, DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-87 Gärtner-Roer, I., Naegeli, K., Huss, M., Knecht, T., Machguth, H., Zemp, M. (2014): A database of worldwide glacier thickness observations. Global and Planetary Change. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.09.003

Metadata

Scientific data identifier for version 2020: DOI 10.5904/wgms-glathida-2020-10 Title: Glacier Thickness Database (GlaThiDa) 3.1.0 Publisher: World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) Release date: 2020-10-06 Rights: All data submitted to GTN-G are considered public domain for non-commercial use and are made digitally available through the operational services at no cost. The date are open access for scientific and educational purposes under the requirement of correct citation (see above), which corresponds to a CC BY 4.0 license by Creative Commons.

Data access

source ~/proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh
mkdir -p $GISDATA/cryosphere/global/GlaThiDa
cd $GISDATA/cryosphere/global/GlaThiDa
wget --continue http://www.gtn-g.ch/database/glathida-3.1.0.zip

This dataset is used for...

IUCN RLE assessment of tropical glaciers