Randolph Glacier Inventory - A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines

The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a global set of glacier outlines intended as a snapshot of the world’s glaciers outside of ice sheets. It provides a single outline for each glacier from approximately the year 2000, as well as a set of attributes and other relevant auxiliary information. Glacier outlines are distributed as Shapefiles. Hypsometric data and attributes (CSV files) and metadata (json) are also available. All RGI data are packaged both globally and by region (as defined by the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G) Glacier Regions). The RGI is not suitable for measuring glacier-by-glacier rates of area change. However, it can be used to estimate glacier volumes; rates of elevation change at regional and global scales; and glacier responses to climatic forcing. RGI version 7.0 was developed by the “Working Group on the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) and its role in future glacier monitoring” of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS). The glaciological community contributes glacier mapping data to the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) database. A subset of the glacier outlines in GLIMS are then extracted and reprocessed to produce the RGI. See the RGI documentation under "User Guide" (below) for more information.

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10.5067/F6JMOVY5NAVZ
RGI 7.0 Consortium, 2023. Randolph Glacier Inventory - A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines, Version 7.0. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi:10.5067/f6jmovy5navz. Online access: https://doi.org/10.5067/f6jmovy5navz
Published: 2025-08-06 | Publisher: UNESCO

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Información básica
DOI 10.5067/F6JMOVY5NAVZ
Tipo de recurso Conjunto de datos espacial
Fecha de creación 02-06-2025
Fecha de última modificación 06-08-2025
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Identificador de los metadatos Randolph-Glacier-Inventory:-A-Dataset-of-Global-Glacier-Outlines
Idioma de los metadatos Inglés
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Categoría del conjunto de alto valor (HVD) Geospacial
Categoría temática ISO 19115 environment
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Información espacial
Identificador INSPIRE
Temas INSPIRE
Identificador geográfico
Sistema de Referencia de Coordenadas EPSG:4326
Tipo de representación espacial Vector
Extensión espacial
Resolución espacial del dataset (m)
Procedencia
Declaración de linaje
Perfil de Metadatos
Conformidad
Conjunto de datos de origen
Frecuencia de actualización
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Pasos del proceso
Cobertura temporal (Inicio)
Cobertura temporal (Fin)
Notas sobre la versión
Versión 7.0
Vigencia del conjunto de datos
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Nombre del autor (Heredado) NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
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Email del autor (Heredado) ihp-wins@unesco.org
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