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  New Zealand Glacier Inventory

Locations and descriptions of New Zealands glaciers as at 1978 (South Island) and 1988 (Mt Ruapehu). A full description of the inventory is published in: Chinn, T. J. (2001). "Distribution of the glacial water resources of New Zealand." Journal of Hydrology (NZ) 40(2): 139-187. This paper is available at: http://www.hydrologynz.org.nz/downloads/20071015-094857-JoHNZ_2001_v40_2_Chinn.pdf
 
Citation proposal
Trevor Chinn (NZGlaciological Survey) - Tim Kerr (NIWA) - Andrew Willsman (NIWA). . https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/a1dce05e-1f7a-118b-658a-f60313be79dd
 
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Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date ( Creation )
2011-04-01T13:28:00
Date ( Revision )
2011-04-01T13:28:00
Purpose
An assessment of the state of New Zealands Cryosphere. 
Credit
Prepared by Trevor [email protected] 443 433320 Muir RdLake Hawea 
Status
Completed  

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NZGlaciological Survey  

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NIWA  

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NIWA  
Spatial representation type
Vector  
Topic category
  • Inland waters

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TimePeriod
1978-04-01T00:00:001978-04-01T00:00:00 
TimePeriod
1988-04-01T00:00:001988-04-01T00:00:00 
  • glacier cryosphere snow

Legal constraints

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Currently the outlines are available only in hardcopy form from Trevor. 
Other constraints
Please cite Trevor Chinn when using these data 

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This is public domain data, catalogued by NIWA under permission of Trevor Chinn 
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English  

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Lineage

Statement
This is currently the only national inventory of New Zealand's glaciers. 

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Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Reference system identifier
NZST/NZDT

 

Metadata

mdb:MD_Metadata

Metadata identifier
a1dce05e-1f7a-118b-658a-f60313be79dd

Locale

Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  

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NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research  
 

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Date info ( Creation )
2014-04-09T15:46:17
Title
ISO 19115-3 
 
 

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The metadata has been published in an academic journal: Chinn, T. J. (2001). "Distribution of the glacial water resources of New Zealand." Journal of Hydrology (NZ) 40(2): 139-187. 
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