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The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers
Description: The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a globally complete collection of digital outlines of glaciers, excluding the ice sheets, developed to meet the needs of the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for estimates of past and future mass balance. The RGI was created with limited resources in a short period. Priority was given to completeness of coverage, but a limited, uniform set of attributes is attached to each of the 198000 glaciers in its latest version, 3.2. Satellite imagery from 1999-2010 provided most of the outlines. [Source: Journal of Glaciology]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG13J176
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Source: Journal of Glaciology
Publish Date: 5/6/2014
Reading Level: Expert
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