GLIMS Meeting 2016, San Francisco, California, USA
Agenda and Highlights
- Welcome, introductions
- Bruce Raup Review of GLIMS activity during 2016 (Slides).
Highlights:
- By merging Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) data, GLIMS is now a globally
complete and multi-temporal glacier database.
- GLIMS works closely with the RGI group, NASA's High Mountain Asia
project, USAID's CHARIS (Contribution to High Asia Runoff from Ice and
Snow) project, and other glacier activities at NSIDC and the World
Glacier Monitoring Service.
- GLIMS has a newly improved data model.
- Contribute data to GLIMS by writing to glacierdata@nsidc.org.
- Newly improved Web map data browser and download functions were
demonstrated.
- GLIMS road map: More data types into GLIMS: velocity,
operational addition of topographic and centerline
data, ...
- Regional activity (Updates from other meeting participants on
GLIMS-relevant projects, glacier mapping activities, upcoming contributions
to GLIMS). Highlights:
- Solveig Winsvold gave an update on the Copernicus Glacier Service activity
in Norway.
- Lucas Ruiz gave an update on Argentina's glacier inventory activity.
Sixteen small inventories are online now, and the rest will be available,
and contributed to GLIMS,
by the end of 2017. The new inventory contains 1000 more glaciers than
the RGI (primarily rock glaciers).
- Community needs and General Discussion
Attendees (15)
Richard Armstrong
Kimberly Casey
Mohan B. Chand
Jacqueline Huber
Siri Jodha Khalsa
Christian Kienholz
Ben Marzeion
Kathrin Naegeli
Bruce Raup
Lucas Ruiz
Sonam Sherpa
Gunjan Silwal
Solveig H. Winsvold
Qinghua YE
Michael Zemp