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The World Glacier Inventory contains information for over 100,000 glaciers through out the world. Parameters within the inventory include: geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification of morphological type and moraines. The inventory entries are based upon a single observation in time and can be viewed as a "snapshot" of the glacier at this time. The core of this collection is data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich. The development of the data product was funded through NOAA's Environmental Services Data and Information Management (ESDIM) program.

You can search the entire glacier inventory in one of several ways. The string search or latitude/longitude search allows you to narrow the search if you also enter parameters in the glacier Altitude/Size/Length field or in the Optional Advanced Search Features section. You can search the entire data base by only entering the inventory parameters. You can also choose to extract select geographic regions or extract the entire database from the FTP site (ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G01130/).