glaciers {nasaweather}

Glacier locations

Description

Downloaded by Dianne Cook.

Usage

glaciers

Format

id

A 12-character unique glacier identifier

name

30-character name of the glacier.

lat,long

Location of the glacier: "The point on the glacier whose coordinates are given should be in the upper part of the ablation area, in the main stream and sufficiently high so as not to be lost if the glacier retreats"

area

The total area of the glacier in a horizontal projection in square kilometers, up to 6 digits.

country

2-character abbreviation for the name of the country or territory in which the glacier is located. These codes are ISO3166 country codes

Source

http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_inventory/