Global Glaciology Mass Balance of Small Glaciers (GGGMBAL)

• Main Authors: Adams, Peter, Cogley, Graham, Ecclestone, Miles
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Regional and Global Biogeochemical Dynamics Data (RGD)
• Subjects: GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE|ANALYSIS|COMPUTER MODEL; GLACIERS|ANALYSIS|FIELD INVESTIGATION; ICE SHEETS|ANALYSIS|FIELD INVESTIGATION; ICE GROWTH/MELT|ANALYSIS|FIELD INVESTIGATION; GLACIAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES|ANALYSIS|FIELD INVESTIGATION; GLACIERS|ANALYSIS|COMPUTER MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE; COMPUTER MODEL; ANALYSIS; Global (point); Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/Global_Glaciology_Mass_Balance_of_Small_Glaciers_(GGGMBAL).xml

Global Glaciology: Mass Balance of Small Glaciers (GGGMBAL) is a data set containing all available time series of annual mass balance measurements for the small glaciers of the world (Cogley and Adams 1998; Cogley 2003; Cogley 2005). (Small glaciers are all glaciers other than the large ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland.) GGGMBAL includes measurements from about eighty glaciers in addition to those studied by Cogley and Adams (1998). The data set consists of four files: (1) A README file; (2) GGGMBAL.DAT: Mass-balance time series, and basic physiographic information, for over 300 glaciers (plain ASCII text); (3) GGGSOUR.PDF: A PDF file containing references to the data sources used in compiling GGGMBAL.DAT (the references are linked to the glacier records by citation numbers); and (4) GGGMBRD.FOR: A set of Fortran subroutines that read records from GGGMBAL.DAT (includes extensive comments explaining the format of the data). References: Cogley, J. G. 2003. Influence and Redundancy in the Global Network of Mass-balance Measurements. Trent Technical Note 2003-2, Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough. 8p. Cogley, J. G. 2005. Mass and energy balances of glaciers and ice sheets. In: Anderson, M. G. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, 2555-2573 (volume 4). Wiley, New York. Cogley, J. G., and W. P. Adams. 1998. Mass balance of glaciers other than the ice sheets. Journal of Glaciology, 44: 315-325.