GCOS Essential Climate Variables - Terrestial

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GCOS Essential Climate Variables (ECV)
Terrestial/ECV T6 Glacier and Ice Caps

Changes in glaciers and ice caps provide some of the clearest evidence of climate change, constitute key variables for early-detection strategies in global climate-related observations and cause serious impacts on the terrestrial water cycle and societies dependent on glacial melt water (GCOS 2004). (from the FAO/GTOS web site)

ECV T6: Glaciers and Ice Caps - Assessment of the Status of the Development of the Standards for the Terrestial Essential Climate Variables (ECV), Version 10, May 21, 2009 (GTOS-61)

[ECV Matrix Main Page] [Reference Documents] [Contact] [Updated April 7, 2010]

Non-satellite or in-situ	Satellite
GTN-G WGMS > World Glacier Monitoring Service WGI > World Glacier Inventory Database NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center UNESCO FRIEND > Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data	GLIMS > Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

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