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Asia CliC Data Workshop

Asia CliC held a Workshop in Lanzhou, China (29 - 31 March, 2009) on Asian Cryospheric Data Products.  This workshop involved 18 scientists from 7 countries, including China, Japan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, and the USA.  The main objectives of the workshop were to update progess made on snow-, glacier-, and frozen-ground data over Asian.  More specifically the workshop would

  • Identify the present condition of archiving of snow cover-, glacier-, and frozen-ground data;
  • Identify the potential data and develop a complete catalogue;
  • Develop a data-rescue and archiving plan.

Featured in the June 2009 CliC Newsletter.

Asian CliC Data working group

Asia CliC Data Workshop Participants.Image: Photo taken by Dr. Tao Che