Within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the University of Zurich (UZH) produces regional-scale glacier inventories as a contribution to the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI).

These inventories typically cover large mountain ranges or specific regions not addressed by other RGI contributors. After production, they are first submitted to the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) database, which provides the underlying data used to build the RGI. C3S only distributes glacier inventories once they have been curated and formally released as part of an official RGI version.

To make these UZH-generated inventories available to C3S users ahead of their inclusion in a future RGI release, links to these datasets are made available here. In this interim stage, they are shared within C3S as Interim Climate Data Records (ICDRs) for inspection. Some of the associated documentation (e.g. the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document and Product Quality Assessment Report) therefore refers directly to these datasets rather than to a published RGI version.

This page transparently documents the datasets provided by C3S to GLIMS, and lists in Table 1 the generated datasets along with relevant metadata and links. The list is updated as new datasets are created and released.

Table 1: Overview and metadata of the glacier outlines created by C3S and provided to GLIMS. The column ‘RGI Nr.’ refers to the identifier of the corresponding main (first-order) RGI geographical region, the column ‘Epoch’ gives the date or date range the outlines refer to. 

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