Purpose of your product: coordinated global glacier projections and experiments
Geographic region: Global, Peripheral
Papers and products:
HOCK, R. et al. (2019) ‘GlacierMIP – A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections’, Journal of Glaciology, 65(251), pp. 453–467. doi:10.1017/jog.2019.22.
Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Anderson, B., Bliss, A., Champollion, N., Fujita, K., Huss, M., Immerzeel, W. W., Kraaijenbrink, P., Malles, J., Maussion, F., Radić, V., Rounce, D. R., Sakai, A., Shannon, S., van de Wal, R., & Zekollari, H. (2020). Partitioning the Uncertainty of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change. Earth’s Future, 8(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001470
RGI Consortium, 2017. Randolph Glacier Inventory - A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines, Version 6. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/4m1f-gd79.
Reason for using this mask
Reference mask.
If you modified the upstream mask, for example, to define and split ‘main’ vs. ‘peripheral’, how and why?
We removed connectivity level 2 from the RGI - it was deemed "too close" to the ice sheet proper. It's also "common practice".
Effort required by you if upstream product changed (to a community standard)
Relatively straightforward for future versions. Effort will be to explain large changes to scientific community, IPCC, public, etc.
Downstream
If your downstream output is different than internal, describe how and why.
Often the output is aggregated by RGI region, in netcdf files.
Overview
Papers and products:
Upstream
RGI version 6.
RGI Consortium, 2017. Randolph Glacier Inventory - A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines, Version 6. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/4m1f-gd79.
Reference mask.
We removed connectivity level 2 from the RGI - it was deemed "too close" to the ice sheet proper. It's also "common practice".
Relatively straightforward for future versions. Effort will be to explain large changes to scientific community, IPCC, public, etc.
Downstream
Often the output is aggregated by RGI region, in netcdf files.