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ESA Glaciers Climate Change Initiative (Glaciers CCI): Randolph Glacier Inventory gridded data product, v5.0
The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 5.0) is a global inventory of glacier outlines. It is supplemental to the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space initiative (GLIMS). Production of the RGI was motivated by the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5). Future updates will be made to the RGI and the GLIMS Glacier Database in parallel during a transition period. As all these data are incorporated into the GLIMS Glacier Database and as download tools are developed to obtain GLIMS data in the RGI data format, the RGI will evolve into a downloadable subset of GLIMS, offering complete one-time coverage, version control, and a standard set of attributes.
The product provided here is a converted raster version of the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 5.0) data, provided by the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Glaciers project. The CCI Glaciers project is one of a number of contributors to the RGI 5.0 dataset. For more details, and for a complete list of contributors, please see the RGI 5.0 Technical Report in the Documentation section below.
The following reference is recommended when citing RGI version 5.0:
Arendt, A., A. Bliss, T. Bolch, J.G. Cogley, A.S. Gardner, J.-O. Hagen, R. Hock, M. Huss, G. Kaser, C. Kienholz, W.T. Pfeffer, G. Moholdt, F. Paul, V. Radić, L. Andreassen, S. Bajracharya, N.E. Barrand, M. Beedle, E. Berthier, R. Bhambri, I. Brown, E. Burgess, D. Burgess, F. Cawkwell, T. Chinn, L. Copland, B. Davies, H. De Angelis, E. Dolgova, L. Earl, K. Filbert, R. Forester, A.G. Fountain, H. Frey, B. Giffen, N. Glasser, W.Q. Guo, S. Gurney, W. Hagg, D. Hall, U.K. Haritashya, G. Hartmann, C. Helm, S. Herreid, I. Howat, G. Kapustin, T. Khromova, M. König, J. Kohler, D. Kriegel, S. Kutuzov, I. Lavrentiev, R. LeBris, S.Y. Liu, J. Lund, W. Manley, R. Marti, C. Mayer, E.S. Miles, X. Li, B. Menounos, A. Mercer, N. Mölg, P. Mool, G. Nosenko, A. Negrete, T. Nuimura, C. Nuth, R. Pettersson, A. Racoviteanu, R. Ranzi, P. Rastner, F. Rau, B. Raup, J. Rich, H. Rott, A. Sakai, C. Schneider, Y. Seliverstov, M. Sharp, O. Sigurðsson, C. Stokes, R.G. Way, R. Wheate, S. Winsvold, G. Wolken, F. Wyatt, N. Zheltyhina, 2015, Randolph Glacier Inventory – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines: Version 5.0. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Boulder Colorado, USA. Digital Media.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-04-12T14:19:51
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-04-12T14:19:51
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 5daf1ff8dd2941a18bb4120ceea95721
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- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- grid Grid
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2010-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are stored as a plain text .dat file
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Data are stored as a plain text .dat file
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Randolph Glacier Inventory 5.0 Technical report
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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ESA CCI Glaciers project website
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Pfeffer, W. et al, 2014,'The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers'
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Product User Guide
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were produced by an international consortium (http://www.glims.org/RGI/), and this derived raster version of the project forms part of the data provided by the ESA CCI Glaciers project and was supplied to CEDA as part of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
- File identifier
- 5daf1ff8dd2941a18bb4120ceea95721 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Glaciers Climate Change Initiative (Glaciers CCI) Dataset Collection b05d478170e14356bbe2c3cce3f7bf67
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:05:47
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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