<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Welty, Ethan</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Zemp, Michael</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Navarro, Francisco</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Huss, Matthias</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Fürst, Johannes J.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Landmann, Johannes</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Machguth, Horst</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Naegeli, Kathrin</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Andreassen, Liss M.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Farinotti, Daniel</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Li, Huilin</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>GlaThiDa Contributors</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2020-11-24</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Although worldwide inventories of glacier area have been coordinated internationally  for several decades, a similar effort for glacier ice thicknesses was only initiated in  2013. Here, we present the third version of the Glacier Thickness Database  (GlaThiDa v3), which includes 3 854 279 thickness measurements distributed over  roughly 3000 glaciers worldwide. Overall, 14 % of global glacier area is now within 1   km of a thickness measurement (located on the same glacier) – a significant  improvement over GlaThiDa v2, which covered only 6 % of global glacier area and  only 1100 glaciers. Improvements in measurement coverage increase the robustness  of numerical interpolations and model extrapolations, resulting in better estimates of  regional to global glacier volumes and their potential contributions to sea-level rise.In  this paper, we summarize the sources and compilation of glacier thickness data and  the spatial and temporal coverage of the resulting database. In addition, we detail our  use of open-source metadata formats and software tools to describe the data, validate  the data format and content against this metadata description, and track changes to  the data following modern data management best practices. Archived versions of  GlaThiDa are available from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (e.g., v3.1.0, from  which this paper was generated: https://doi.org/10.5904/wgms-glathida-2020-10;  GlaThiDa Consortium, 2020), while the development version is available on GitLab  (https://gitlab.com/wgms/glathida, last access: 9 November 2020).</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/309241</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/309241/files/hus_wvc.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/309241/files/hus_wvc_sm.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/essd-12-3039-2020</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Earth System Science Data. - 2020, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 3039–3055</dc:source>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/556</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
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