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

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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.
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