WGMS
World Glacier Monitoring Servicehttps://wgms.ch/
| Type of Structure: | coordinated project |
| Regional Scope: | global |
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| Duration : | 1986 to present |
| Contact Address: | no office contact defined |
General information and objectives
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: 5/6/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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