Citation:

PANGAEA.984878

Name: New glacier boundaries mapped from DEMs, Salzburg region, Austria
Published: 2025-10-08
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Glacier area; Glacier area changes; Glacier inventory; Glaciers; Glaciers_austria; Glaciers Austria; Glacier volume; Glacier volume changes

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Published: 2025-10-08 • DOI registered: 2025-11-06

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Keyword(s):

Glacier area; Glacier area changes; Glacier inventory; Glaciers; Glaciers_austria; Glaciers Austria; Glacier volume; Glacier volume changes

Related to:

Bertolotti, Giulia; Fischer, Andrea (2021): Gletscherinventar Salzburg 2008-2018 - Endbericht zum Projekt "Grenzen und Volumsänderungen der Salzburger Gletscher". Hydrographischer Dienst des Landes Salzburg, Insbruck, 21 pp, Report_GI2018_Salzburg_2021.pdf

Bertolotti, Giulia; Seiser, Bernd; Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin; Fischer, Andrea (2020): Gletscherinventar Land Salzburg 2017/2018 - Zwischenbericht zum Projekt "Grenzen und Volumsänderungen der Salzburger Gletscher". Hydrographischer Dienst des Landes Salzburg, Insbruck, 17 pp, Report_GI2018_Salzburg_2020.pdf

References:

Fischer, Andrea; Seiser, Bernd; Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin; Mitterer, Christian; Abermann, Jakob (2015): Tracing glacier changes in Austria from the Little Ice Age to the present using a lidar-based high-resolution glacier inventory in Austria. The Cryosphere, 9(2), 753-766, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-753-2015

Groß, Günther (1987): Der Flächenverlust der Gletscher in Österreich 1850-1920-1969. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 23(2), 131-141

Lambrecht, Astrid; Kuhn, Michael (2007): Glacier changes in the Austrian Alps during the last three decades, derived from the new Austrian glacier inventory. Annals of Glaciology, 46(1), 177-184, https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407782871341

Stocker-Waldhuber, Martin; Wiesenegger, Hans; Abermann, Jakob; Hynek, Bernhard; Fischer, Andrea (2012): A new glacier inventory of the province of Salzburg, Austria 2007/2009. Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 43/44, 121-128

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 47.135714 * Median Longitude: 12.717143 * South-bound Latitude: 47.050000 * West-bound Longitude: 12.120000 * North-bound Latitude: 47.420000 * East-bound Longitude: 13.250000

Event(s):

Ankogel * Latitude: 47.050000 * Longitude: 13.250000 * Location: Eastern Alps

Glockner * Latitude: 47.070000 * Longitude: 12.690000 * Location: Eastern Alps

Granatspitz * Latitude: 47.120000 * Longitude: 12.590000 * Location: Eastern Alps

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	File content	Content		Bertolotti, Giulia
2	Geospatial vector, shapefiles	Shapefile		Bertolotti, Giulia

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

4 data points

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1 Content	2 Shapefile
Shapefiles of the new glacier boundaries mapped from DEMs, organized per mountain range	GI_Salzburg_DEM.zip
Shapefiles of the new glacier boundaries mapped from orthophotos, organized per mountain range	GI_Salzburg_orthophoto.zip