GCOS Essential Climate Variables - Terrestial

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GCOS Essential Climate Variables (ECV)

Terrestial/ECV T-6 - 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 Standards
Reference Documents

Global	Regional	National	Satellite
GTN-G WGMS > World Glacier Monitoring Service WGI > World Glacier Inventory Database GLIMS > Global Land Ice Measurements from Space 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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