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    • Largest Glaciers and Glacier Complexes in the World, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    This data set provides a list of the three largest glaciers and glacier complexes in each of the 19 glacial regions of the world as defined by the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers. The data are provided in shapefile format with an outline for each of the largest ice bodies along with a number of attributes such as area in km2.

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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 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2267591561-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1956-02-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2015-08-26
    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 Largest Glaciers and Glacier Complexes in the World, Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center. https://doi.org/10.7265/0k6h-yn09.
    Harvest Object Id d849eee3-7081-4e47-8bdf-c9a3a069e5f8
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7265/0k6h-yn09
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c88e593d97aefce08878bcec72cb9167cf447a13d79bc4e1723e1ee6d2dee9e6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1956-02-01T00:00:00Z/2015-08-26T23:59:59.999Z

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