The Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

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dc.contributor.authorPfeffer, W. Tad
dc.contributor.authorArendt, Anthony A.
dc.contributor.authorBliss, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBolch, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorCogley, J. Graham
dc.contributor.authorGardner, Alex S.
dc.contributor.authorHagen, Jon-Ove
dc.contributor.authorHock, Regine
dc.contributor.authorKaser, Georg
dc.contributor.authorKienholz, Christian
dc.contributor.authorMiles, Evan S.
dc.contributor.authorMoholdt, Geir
dc.contributor.authorMolg, Nico
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Frank
dc.contributor.authorRadic, Valentina
dc.contributor.authorRastner, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorRaup, Bruce H.
dc.contributor.authorRich, Justin
dc.contributor.authorSharp, Martin J.
dc.contributor.authorThe Randolph Consortium
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T21:18:09Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T21:18:09Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionSherpa Romeo green journal. Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) appliesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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. Their total extent is estimated as 726800 34000km2.The uncertainty, about 5%,is derived fromcarefulsingle-glacierand basin-scale uncertainty estimates and comparisons with inventories that were not sources for the RGI. The main contributors to uncertainty are probably misinterpretation of seasonal snow cover and debris cover. These errors appear not to be normally distributed, and quantifying them reliablyis an unsolved problem. Combined with digital elevation models, the RGI glacier outlines yield hypsometries that can be combined with atmospheric data or model outputs for analysis of the impacts of climatic change on glaciers. The RGI has already proved its value in the generation of significantly improved aggregate estimates of glacier mass changes and total volume, and thus actual and potential contributions to sea-level rise.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationPfeffer, W. T., Arendt, A. A., Bliss, A., Bolch, T., Cogley, J. G., Gardner, A. S.,...The Randolph Consortium (incl Jiskoot, H.). The Randolph Glacier inventory: A globally complete inventory of glaciers. Journal of Glaciology, 60(221), 537-552. doi: 10.3189/2014JoG13J176en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5590
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherInternational Glaciological Societyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Coloradoen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Alaskaen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Zurichen_US
dc.publisher.institutionTechnische Universitat Dresdenen_US
dc.publisher.institutionTrent Universityen_US
dc.publisher.institutionClark Universityen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Osloen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUppsala Universityen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Innsbrucken_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cambridgeen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Californiaen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of British Columbiaen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Albertaen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://dx.doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG13J176
dc.subjectAntarctic glaciologyen_US
dc.subjectArctic glaciologyen_US
dc.subjectGlacier delineationen_US
dc.subjectGlacier mappingen_US
dc.subjectRemote sensingen_US
dc.subjectTropical glaciologyen_US
dc.titleThe Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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