FLUCTUATIONS OF GLACIERS DATABASE

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for latest version: 10.5904/wgms-fog-2024-01

Creator: World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)

Title: Fluctuations of Glaciers Database

Publisher: World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)

Publication year: 2024

Release date: 2024-01-23

Rights: Open access under the requirement of correct citation

Citation: WGMS (2024): Fluctuations of Glaciers Database. World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), Zurich, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.5904/wgms-fog-2024-01

Related publications:

WGMS (2023): Global Glacier Change Bulletin No. 5 (2020-2021). Michael Zemp, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Ethan Z. Welty, Inès Dussaillant, and Jacqueline Bannwart (eds.), ISC (WDS) / IUGG (IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO / WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland, 134 pp. Based on database version https://doi.org/10.5904/wgms-fog-2023-09.

... and earlier issues

Contributors:

WGMS scientific collaboration network of national correspondents and principal investigators as listed in the data (INVESTIGATOR column) and related publications.

Language: English

Data format: CSV files, zipped

Data size: 684 MB

Description: Internationally collected, standardized dataset on changes in glaciers (length, area, volume, mass) based on in-situ and remotely sensed observations, as well as on reconstructions.

Spatial coverage: Global

Temporal coverage: 1127–2024 AD