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

Bjørk, A. A.; Kruse, L. M.; Michaelsen, P. B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2215-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Brief communication

|

01 Dec 2015

Brief communication |

| 01 Dec 2015

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

A. A. Bjørk, L. M. Kruse, and P. B. Michaelsen

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SC C225: 'Define the common sub-components of the name', Kenneth Mankoff, 13 Mar 2015
SC C238: 'Comments on Data Format and Availability', Allen Pope, 16 Mar 2015
RC C486: 'Review of "Getting Greenland’s glaciers right, Bjørk et al."', Hester Jiskoot, 20 Apr 2015
RC C628: 'Referee comment on “Brief communication: Getting Glacier’s glaciers right – a new dataset of all official Greenlandic glacier names” by A. A. Bjørk et al.', Jacob Clement Yde, 30 Apr 2015
AC C1043: 'Author's comments', Anders Anker Bjørk, 12 Jun 2015

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AR by Anders Bjork on behalf of the Authors (12 Jun 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (24 Aug 2015) by Eric Larour

AR by Anders Bjork on behalf of the Authors (28 Aug 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Nov 2015) by Eric Larour

AR by Anders Bjork on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2015) Manuscript

Short summary

During the last centuries hundreds of glaciers in Greenland have been mapped and named. Here we present the official database of all Greenlandic glacier names - consisting of 733 glacier names that have been approved by the Greenlandic authorities. This data set will help researchers working with Greenlandic glaciers in naming the glaciers properly in order to avoid future misunderstandings and will help the researcher who is looking for older glacier names found in the historic literature.