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RGI 6.0 TermType misallocations (land-vs marine-terminating) Svalbard #15

Open ptepes opened 3 years ago

ptepes commented 3 years ago

Upon visual inspection of online maps from the Norwegian Polar Institute (available at www.npolar.no), the following glaciers/ ice cap basins of Svalbard currently flagged as land-terminating would need to be reallocated as marine-terminating:

Augnebreen, Aldousbreen, Besselsbreen, Bragebreen, Deltabreen, Duckwitzbreen, Fjortende Julibreen, Franklinbreen N and S, Frazerbreen, Gimlebreen, Hayesbreen, Hochstetterbreen, Idunbreen, Infantfonna, Ingerbreen, Innifonna, Johansenbreen, Kongsbreen, Kongsvegen, Kronebreen, Mittag-Lefflerbreen, Monacobreen, Negribreen, Nordenskiöldbreen, Nordsysselbreen, Oslobreen, Paulabreen, Petermannbreen, Polarisbreen, Recherchebreen, Scheibreen, Sidevegen, Spælbreen, Stonebreen, Tunabreen, Vaigattbreen.

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Figure: Land (red) and marine-terminating (blue) glacier basins in Svalbard. Partitioning according to RGI 6.0 (left) and after reallocation (right).

fmaussion commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the report!

fmaussion commented 1 year ago

Tagging @willkochtitzky who is currently working on it for RGI7 - please take this into account!

willkochtitzky commented 1 year ago

Thanks @ptepes these will all be corrected in RGI7 for the year 2000