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World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008): Global glacier changes [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786382, Supplement to: World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2000-2005. In: Haeberli, W; Zemp, M; Kääb, A; Paul, F; Hoelzle, M (eds.), ICSU (FAGS) / IUGG (IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO / WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland, IX, 266 pp, hdl:10013/epic.39784.d001

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Abstract:
Changes in glaciers and ice caps provide some of the clearest evidence of climate change, and as such they constitute key variables for early detection strategies in global climate-related observations. These changes have impacts on global sea level fluctuations, the regional to local natural hazard situation, as well as on societies dependent on glacier meltwater. Internationally coordinated collection and publication of standardised information about ongoing glacier changes was initiated back in 1894. The compiled data sets on the global distribution and changes in glaciers and ice caps provide the backbone of the numerous scientific publications on the latest findings about surface ice on land. Since the very beginning, the compiled data has been published by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and its predecessor organisations. However, the corresponding data tables, formats and meta-data are mainly of use to specialists.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 13.817313 * Median Longitude: -16.458542 * South-bound Latitude: -82.060000 * West-bound Longitude: -159.280000 * North-bound Latitude: 83.120000 * East-bound Longitude: 171.670000
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  1. World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008): (Appendix 2) Glacier events up to the year 2005. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786380
  2. World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008): (Appendix 2) Overview on available length change and mass balance data series of glaciers up to the year 2005. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786375