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Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers

  • Jakob Steiner (University of Graz, Himalayan University Consortium) (Creator)
  • William Armstrong (Appalachian State University) (Creator)
  • William Kochtitzky (University of New England) (Creator)
  • Robert McNabb (Creator)
  • Rodrigo Aguayo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (Creator)
  • Tobias Bolch (Graz University of Technology, University of St Andrews) (Creator)
  • Fabien Maussion (Creator)
  • Vibhor Agarwal (Emporia State University) (Creator)
  • Iestyn Barr (Manchester Metropolitan University) (Creator)
  • Nathaniel Baurley (University of Southampton) (Creator)
  • Mike Cloutier (University of Minnesota) (Creator)
  • Katelyn DeWater (University of New England) (Creator)
  • Frank Donachie (University of Sheffield) (Creator)
  • Yoann Drocourt (ACRI-ST) (Creator)
  • Siddhi Garg (University of Dayton) (Creator)
  • Gunjan Joshi (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) (Creator)
  • Byron Guzman (Universidad Austral de Chile) (Creator)
  • Stanislav Kutuzov (Creator)
  • Thomas Loriaux (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) (Creator)
  • Caleb Mathias (University of Northern British Columbia) (Creator)
  • Brian Menounos (Creator)
  • Evan Miles (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg) (Creator)
  • Aleksandra Osika (University of Silesia in Katowice) (Creator)
  • Kaleigh Potter (School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England) (Creator)
  • Adina Racoviteanu (Universite Grenoble Alpes) (Creator)
  • Brianna Rick (RedCastle Resources) (Creator)
  • Miles Sterner (University of Minnesota) (Creator)
  • Guy D. Tallentire (Loughborough University) (Creator)
  • Levan Tielidze (Monash University, Ilia State University) (Creator)
  • Rebecca White (School of Geography, University of Leeds) (Creator)
  • Kunpeng Wu (Graz University of Technology, Yunnan Minzu University) (Creator)
  • Whyjay Zheng (National Central University) (Creator)

Dataset

Description

This dataset is the result of a community effort to identify lake-terminating glaciers in the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) version 7 (RGI 7.0 Consortium, 2023), and is fully described in the related paper, published in Earth System Science Data (Steiner et al., 2026).

For a full description of the dataset, including the definition of lake-terminating categories, see either the related paper, or the README in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/GLIMS-RGI/lake_terminating).
Date made available11 Feb 2026
PublisherZenodo
Temporal coverage1990 - 2020
Geographical coverageGlobal

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  • Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers

    Steiner, J., Armstrong, W., Kochtitzky, W., McNabb, R., Aguayo, R., Bolch, T., Maussion, F., Agarwal, V., Barr, I., Baurley, N., Cloutier, M., DeWater, K., Donachie, F., Drocourt, Y., Garg, S., Joshi, G., Guzman, B., Kutuzov, S., Loriaux, T. & Mathias, C. & 12 others, Menounos, B., Miles, E., Osika, A., Potter, K., Racoviteanu, A., Rick, B., Sterner, M., Tallentire, G. D., Tielidze, L., White, R., Wu, K. & Zheng, W., 3 Mar 2026, (Published online) In: Earth System Science Data. 18, 2, p. 1665–1681 17 p.

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