Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-115-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-115-2017
15 Feb 2017
 | 15 Feb 2017

A complete glacier inventory of the Antarctic Peninsula based on Landsat 7 images from 2000 to 2002 and other preexisting data sets

Jacqueline Huber, Alison J. Cook, Frank Paul, and Michael Zemp

Data sets

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) GLIMS, J. Huber, A. Cook, F. Paul, M. Zemp https://doi.org/10.7265/N5V98602

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A glacier inventory of the AP (63°–70° S), consisting of glacier outlines accompanied by glacier-specific parameters (i.e., elevation distribution, slope, aspect, thickness and volume), was achieved by digitally combining already-existing data sets. This resulted in 1589 glaciers, covering an area of 95 273 km2. These freely available data provide new insights into AP glaciers, their behavior in response to a changing climate and their corresponding contribution to sea level rise.