WGMS
World Glacier Monitoring Service

www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/

Type of Structure:	coordinated project
Regional Scope :	global
Parent Organisations :
Child Organisations :
Duration :	1986 to present
Contact Address :	Prof. Wilfried Haeberli Director Physical Geography Division Geographisches Institut - Physical Geography Universität Zürich Winterthurerstr. 190 - Irchel 8057 Zürich Phone: +41 (0)44 635 51 20 ; +41 (0) 44 634 11 11 FAX: +41 (0) 44 635 40 04 e-Mail: wilfried.haeberli@geo.uzh.ch URL: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/phys/aboutus/

holding an official function in WGMS

Objectives of WGMS:

1. to continue collecting and publishing standardized data on glacier fluctua-tions at 5-yearly intervals,
2. to complete and continuously upgrade an inventory of the world's glaciers
3. to publish results of mass balance measurements from selected reference glaciers at 2-yearly intervals,
4. to include satellite observations of remote glaciers in order to reach global coverage,
5. to periodically assess ongoing change

The World Glacier Inventory (WGI) contains glacier data describing the spatial distribution
The Fluctuations of Glaciers (FoG) and Mass Balance Bulletin (MBB) contains data documenting changes in time (changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers).

The WGMS maintains data exchange with the World Data Center A for Glaciology (WDC-A) and the Global Resources Information Database (GRID) of GEMS.

For further details, link to the WGMS Home Page

Last update: 8.6.2009

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