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World Glacier Inventory (WGI) glacier ID

ID wgi_glacier_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Twelve-character id of a glacier in the World Glacier Inventory, compiled by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and NSIDC: a 2-letter political unit code (country codes of the time, including SU and ZR), a continent digit from 1 to 7, a 4-character drainage basin code, a 2-character free position code and a 3-character local glacier code. The user guide calls the last two parts digits, but the data also have letters there (FR4N01083B15).

Categories
Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste), Geographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Wikidata
P1404
Quality
90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[A-Z]{2}[1-7][A-Z][0-9A-Z]{8}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
CH4N01336026Great Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland; WGI user guide, Wikidata example
PK5Q115K0001Ghuchhārsar Glacier, Pakistan; Wikidata example, WGI data
FR4N01083B15Glacier Noir, France; WGI data
CH4N0133602 invalidEleven characters; the id has twelve

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianИдентификатор ледника во Всемирном каталоге ледников (WGI)Двенадцатизначный код ледника во Всемирном каталоге ледников WGMS: код страны, код континента, код бассейна стока и местный номер ледника.

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