Glaciers, Central Asia Region, 2017
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This polygon shapefile contains glacier outlines for the Central Asia region. These data also include an ancillary CSV file containing all hypsometric data. This layer is part of the Randolph Glacier Inventory (6.0).
- Purpose
- The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 6.0) 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).
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
|---|---|
| Form | Shapefile |
| Extent | 80.552 |
| Publisher | GLIMS |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Edition | 6.0 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | Scale not given. ; E 67°28ʹ38ʺ--E 103°53ʹ38ʺ/N 45°21ʹ17ʺ--N 28°8ʹ10ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | GLIMS |
|---|
Subjects
| Subject | Glaciers |
|---|---|
| Subject | Asia |
| Subject | 2017 |
| Subject | Boundaries |
| Subject | Inland Waters |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
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- Use and reproduction
- You are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format), adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- RGI Consortium (2017). Randolph Glacier Inventory – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines: Version 6.0: Technical Report, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Colorado, USA. Digital Media. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7265/N5-RGI-60
Collection
Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 6.0)
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