The length of the world's glaciers – a new approach for the global calculation of center lines
Glacier length is an important measure of glacier geometry. Nevertheless, global glacier inventories are mostly lacking length data. Only recently semi-automated approaches to measure glacier length have been developed and applied regionally. Here we present a first global assessment of glacier leng...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-09-01
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Series: | The Cryosphere |
Online Access: | http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1741/2014/tc-8-1741-2014.pdf |