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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: H. Machguth, M. Huss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-09-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1741/2014/tc-8-1741-2014.pdf