Brief communication: Getting Greenland's glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names

Place names in Greenland can be difficult to get right, as they are a mix of Greenlandic, Danish, and other foreign languages. In addition, orthographies have changed over time. With this new data set, we give the researcher working with Greenlandic glaciers the proper tool to find the correct name...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:	The cryosphere 2015-12, Vol.9 (6), p.2215-2218
Hauptverfasser:	Bjørk, A. A, Kruse, L. M, Michaelsen, P. B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Coasts Communication Datasets Foreign languages Glaciation Glaciers Greenland ice sheet Ice caps Ice sheets Names Orthography Researchers
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Tags:	Tag hinzufügen Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	Place names in Greenland can be difficult to get right, as they are a mix of Greenlandic, Danish, and other foreign languages. In addition, orthographies have changed over time. With this new data set, we give the researcher working with Greenlandic glaciers the proper tool to find the correct name for glaciers and ice caps in Greenland and to locate glaciers described in the historic literature with the old Greenlandic orthography. The data set contains information on the names of 733 glaciers, 285 originating from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and 448 from local glaciers and ice caps (LGICs).
ISSN:	1994-0424 1994-0416 1994-0424 1994-0416
DOI:	10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015