The Randolph Glacier Inventory 5.0

With the following links you may download the complete Randolph Glacier Inventory 5.0 or regional subsets.

MD5 checksums are provided for each file as a way to check the integrity of the file after download or media migration. They are only used to make sure a file didn't get corrupted, and are not needed to process or view the data.

Download links

• Complete RGI 5.0 (MD5 checksum)

• Gridded glacier map (MD5 checksum)
• Attributes file (MD5 checksum)
• Links to other databases (MD5 checksum)
• RGI region outlines (MD5 checksum)
• RGI 5.0 summary information (MD5 checksum)

Version 5.0 by region:

• Alaska (MD5 checksum)
• Western Canada and USA (MD5 checksum)
• Arctic Canada North (MD5 checksum)
• Arctic Canada South (MD5 checksum)
• Greenland Periphery (MD5 checksum)
• Iceland (MD5 checksum)
• Svalbard (MD5 checksum)
• Scandinavia (MD5 checksum)
• Russian Arctic (MD5 checksum)
• North Asia (MD5 checksum)
• Central Europe (MD5 checksum)
• Caucasus, Middle East (MD5 checksum)
• Central Asia (MD5 checksum)
• South Asia West (MD5 checksum)
• South Asia East (MD5 checksum)
• Low Latitudes (MD5 checksum)
• Southern Andes (MD5 checksum)
• New Zealand (MD5 checksum)
• Antarctic, Subantarctic (MD5 checksum)

The Randolph Glacier Inventory, a global inventory of glacier outlines, may be used freely with due acknowledgement. It is intended for the estimation of total ice volumes and glacier mass changes at global and large-regional scales. It is supplemental to the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space initiative (GLIMS). Production of the RGI was motivated by the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5). Future updates will be made to the RGI and the GLIMS Glacier Database in parallel during a transition period. As all these data are incorporated into the GLIMS Glacier Database and as download tools are developed to obtain GLIMS data in the RGI data format, the RGI will evolve into a downloadable subset of GLIMS, offering complete one-time coverage, version control, and a standard set of attributes.