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Distributed ice thickness and volume of all glaciers around the globe
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A new physically based approach for calculating glacier ice thickness distribution and volume is presented and applied to all glaciers and ice caps worldwide. Combining glacier outlines of the globally complete Randolph Glacier Inventory with terrain elevation models (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission/Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer), we use a simple dynamic model to obtain spatially distributed thickness of individual glaciers by inverting their surface topography. Results are validated against a comprehensive set of thickness observations for 300 glaciers from most glacierized regions of the world. For all mountain glaciers and ice caps outside of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets we find a total ice volume of 170 × 10 3 ± 21 × 10 3 km 3, or 0.43 ± 0.06 m of potential sea level rise.
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“For glacier models that require an external data set of the ice thickness distribution or volume of the glaciers, an update of the data set from Huss and Farinotti (2012) to RGI Version 6.0 was provided.”
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- Authors
- Huss, M., & Farinotti, D.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2012-10-11
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- F4
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2030857646
- Cited by
- 464
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 18.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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