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

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Brief communication : getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names. / Bjørk, Anders Anker; Kruse, L. M.; Michaelsen, P. B.

In: The Cryosphere, Vol. 9, 01.12.2015, p. 2215-2218.

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Harvard

Bjørk, AA, Kruse, LM & Michaelsen, PB 2015, 'Brief communication: getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names', The Cryosphere, vol. 9, pp. 2215-2218. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

APA

Bjørk, A. A., Kruse, L. M., & Michaelsen, P. B. (2015). Brief communication: getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names. The Cryosphere, 9, 2215-2218. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

Vancouver

Bjørk AA, Kruse LM, Michaelsen PB. Brief communication: getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names. The Cryosphere. 2015 Dec 1;9:2215-2218. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

Author

Bjørk, Anders Anker ; Kruse, L. M. ; Michaelsen, P. B. / Brief communication : getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names. In: The Cryosphere. 2015 ; Vol. 9. pp. 2215-2218.

Bibtex

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abstract = "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 theold 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).",
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