[MASK]: Frontal ablation of the Northern Hemisphere

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Overview

• Product name and version: Frontal ablation of the Northern Hemisphere
• Purpose of your product: mass balance
• Geographic region: Greenland, Peripheral, Mountain Glaciers
• Year(s) covered by product: 2000-2020

Upstream

[For each upstream mask product you used, copy and repeat this section. Or remove if no upstream mask]

• What upstream mask product did you use? RGI6, Mouginot, J., & Rignot, E. (2019).

• Reason for using this mask: RGI is only thing available for mountain glaciers, Mouginot and Rignot seemed like best option and most widely used

• If you modified the upstream mask, for example, to define and split ‘main’ vs. ‘peripheral’, how and why? I had to do lots of modifications, RGI clumps some glaciers together with multiple termini, so I needed to split this. Same with the Greenland Ice Sheet.

• Effort required by you if upstream product changed (to a community standard): Would likely still need to modify to deal with multiple termini considered as one glacier, but this project on frontal ablation is not operational.

• If you used internal basins, which product and why? RGI6, Mouginot, J., & Rignot, E. (2019) - RGI is only thing available for mountain glaciers, Mouginot and Rignot seemed like best option and most widely used

• If you subset to a geographical region (Greenland, Antarctica, sub-region, peripheral, individual glacier), how and why: No subset

• Type: vector

• Projection information: EPSG 3995

• Year or years of input product(s): 2000-2020

Other notes

Publications:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33231-x
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL104095
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096501