EARTH OBSERVATION The first globally complete glacier inventory has been created

The first globally complete glacier inventory has been created by Staff Writers Dresden, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2014

Overall, glaciers cover an area of about 730,000 km2 and have a volume of about 170,000 km3.

Thanks to the efforts of an international group of scientists - one of them is Tobias Bolch from Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany - who have mapped all of the world's glaciers, glaciologists can now study with unprecedented accuracy the impacts of a changing climate on glaciers worldwide, and determine their total extent and volume on a glacier-by-glacier basis.

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