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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-115-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-115-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-115-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

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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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript "A complete glacier inventory of the Antarctic Peninsula based on Landsat7 images from 2000-2002 and other pre-existing datasets" by J. Huber et al.', Ben Marzeion, 19 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Author response 1', Jacqueline Huber, 07 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Review of Huber et al. A complete glacier inventory of the Antarctic Peninsula ..', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Author response 2', Jacqueline Huber, 07 Dec 2016

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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.