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

    Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

    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 April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.7265/N50Z715N
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 0530ddca-2ebf-4f3f-9497-d2c2ed349eb9
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G01375/
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-53.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":71.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-43.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":59.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 578102b31b51a07fba933e8d150d6fb0a9be3fe7bc9a0073c160387ed73388d0
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1948-01-01/1948-01-01

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