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Glacier Inventory of West Greenland, 1948 - 1985, Version 1

Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

The inventory includes 5,297 Glaciers from west Greenland between 59 to 71 degrees latitude north and 43 to 53 degrees longitude west. The glacier data basin division is based on a simplified version of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) system. Data are based on 1:250000 maps, Landsat imagery, and aerial photos that were taken between 1948 and 1985.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Publisher NSIDC
Maintainer
Identifier C2205521096-NSIDCV0
Data First Published 1948-01-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 1985-12-31
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Citation Glacier Inventory of West Greenland, 1948 - 1985, Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center. https://doi.org/10.7265/N50Z715N.
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7265/N50Z715N
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -53.0 59.0 -43.0 71.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 0f314ce43597d05fcc53b942565c9525692ce8b6a7e37018c4152cb05d60bffb
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z/1985-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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