Table · dataset · 2025
World Glacier Inventory, Version 1
Listed in NASA Data Portal
Notice: Due to funding limitations, this data set was recently changed to a “Basic” Level of Service.
Description
Learn more about what this means for users and how you can share your story here: Level of Service Update for Data Products . The World Glacier Inventory (WGI) contains information for over 130,000 glaciers, or about 85% of the total estimated number of glaciers.
Inventory parameters include geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification. The WGI is based primarily on aerial photographs and maps with most glaciers having one data entry only. Hence, the dataset can be viewed as a snapshot of the glacier distribution in the second half of the 20th century.
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It is based on the original WGI (WGMS 1989) from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS).
Links
Get the data
- Resource noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G01130 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1386246230-NSIDCV0.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource nsidc.org/data/glacier_inventory ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.7265/n5/nsidc-wgi-2012-02 ↗
download · DOI / persistent id · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/world-glacier-inventory-version-1-295f2 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=071d4547-bb94-4404-93a5-73a4b6fbd… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Data Portal | 071d4547-bb94-4404-93a5-73a4b6fbdf56 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |