The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

被引:876
作者
Pfeffer, W. Tad [1 ]
Arendt, Anthony A. [2 ]
Bliss, Andrew [2 ]
Bolch, Tobias [3 ,4 ]
Cogley, J. Graham [5 ]
Gardner, Alex S. [6 ]
Hagen, Jon-Ove [7 ]
Hock, Regine [2 ,8 ]
Kaser, Georg [9 ]
Kienholz, Christian [2 ]
Miles, Evan S. [10 ]
Moholdt, Geir [11 ]
Moelg, Nico [3 ]
Paul, Frank [3 ]
Radic, Valentina [12 ]
Rastner, Philipp [3 ]
Raup, Bruce H. [13 ]
Rich, Justin [2 ]
Sharp, Martin J. [14 ]
Andeassen, L. M. [15 ]
Bajracharya, S. [16 ]
Barrand, N. E. [17 ]
Beedle, M. J. [18 ]
Berthier, E. [19 ]
Bhambri, R. [20 ]
Brown, I. [21 ]
Burgess, D. O. [22 ]
Burgess, E. W. [23 ]
Cawkwell, F. [24 ]
Chinn, T. [25 ]
Copland, L. [26 ]
Cullen, N. J. [27 ]
Davies, B. [28 ]
De Angelis, H. [21 ]
Fountain, A. G. [29 ]
Frey, H. [30 ]
Giffen, B. A. [31 ]
Glasser, N. F. [28 ]
Gurney, S. D. [32 ]
Hagg, W. [33 ]
Hall, D. K. [34 ]
Haritashya, U. K. [35 ]
Hartmann, G. [36 ]
Herreid, S. [23 ]
Howat, I. [37 ]
Jiskoot, H. [38 ]
Khromova, T. E. [39 ]
Klein, A. [40 ]
Kohler, J. [41 ]
Konig, M. [41 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Inst Arctic & Alpine Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Inst Geophys, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA
[3] Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland
[4] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Cartog, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[5] Trent Univ, Dept Geog, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada
[6] Clark Univ, Grad Sch Geog, Worcester, MA 01610 USA
[7] Univ Oslo, Dept Geosci, Oslo, Norway
[8] Uppsala Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Uppsala, Sweden
[9] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Meteorol & Geophys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[10] Univ Cambridge, Scott Polar Res Inst, Cambridge CB2 1ER, England
[11] Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, Inst Geophys & Planetary Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[12] Univ British Columbia, Dept Earth Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
[13] Univ Colorado, Natl Snow & Ice Data Ctr, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[14] Univ Alberta, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[15] Norwegian Water Resources & Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
[16] Int Ctr Integrated Mt Dev, Kathmandu, Nepal
[17] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[18] Univ No British Columbia, Terrace, BC, Canada
[19] Lab Etudes Geophys & Oceanog Spatiales, Toulouse, France
[20] Wadia Inst Himalayan Geol, Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India
[21] Stockholm Univ, Stockholm, Sweden
[22] Geol Survey Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[23] Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK USA
[24] Univ Coll Cork, Cork, Ireland
[25] Natl Inst Water & Atmospher Res, Dunedin, New Zealand
[26] Univ Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[27] Univ Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
[28] Aberystwyth Univ, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales
[29] Portland State Univ, Portland, OR USA
[30] Univ Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
[31] National Pk Serv, Anchorage, AK USA
[32] Univ Reading, Reading, Berks, England
[33] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[34] Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[35] Univ Dayton, Dayton, OH USA
[36] Alberta Geol Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[37] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH USA
[38] Univ Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
[39] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Geog, Moscow, Russia
[40] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX USA
[41] Norwegian Polar Res Inst, Tromso, Norway
[42] German Res Ctr Geosci, Potsdam, Germany
[43] Cold & Arid Regions Environm & Engn Res Inst, Lanzhou, Peoples R China
[44] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
[45] Bavarian Acad Sci, Commiss Geodesy & Glaciol, Munich, Germany
[46] Univ No British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
[47] Univ Oslo, Oslo, Norway
[48] Central Asian Inst Appl Geosci, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
[49] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[50] Lab Glaciol & Geophys Environm, Grenoble, France
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 奥地利科学基金会;
关键词
Antarctic glaciology; Arctic glaciology; glacier delineation; glacier mapping; remote sensing; tropical glaciology; SEA-LEVEL RISE; ICE CAPS; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; ALASKAN GLACIERS; MASS-BALANCE; PROJECT; VOLUME; LANDSAT;
D O I
10.3189/2014JoG13J176
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a globally complete collection of digital outlines of glaciers, excluding the ice sheets, developed to meet the needs of the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for estimates of past and future mass balance. The RGI was created with limited resources in a short period. Priority was given to completeness of coverage, but a limited, uniform set of attributes is attached to each of the similar to 198 000 glaciers in its latest version, 3.2. Satellite imagery from 1999-2010 provided most of the outlines. Their total extent is estimated as 726 800 +/- 34 000 km(2). The uncertainty, about +/- 5%, is derived from careful single-glacier and basin-scale uncertainty estimates and comparisons with inventories that were not sources for the RGI. The main contributors to uncertainty are probably misinterpretation of seasonal snow cover and debris cover. These errors appear not to be normally distributed, and quantifying them reliably is an unsolved problem. Combined with digital elevation models, the RGI glacier outlines yield hypsometries that can be combined with atmospheric data or model outputs for analysis of the impacts of climatic change on glaciers. The RGI has already proved its value in the generation of significantly improved aggregate estimates of glacier mass changes and total volume, and thus actual and potential contributions to sea-level rise.
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