Cryospheric Landforms Data

Inventory_2015 is a GIS-ready (ESRI shapefile) version of the regional inventoryof glaciers and periglacial (ice-rich permafrost) landforms of the Atacama ariddiagonal, originally published as: Garcia, A., Ulloa, C., Amigo, G., Milana, J. P. & Medina, C. (2017). An inventory of cryospheric landforms in the arid diagonal of South America (high Central Andes, Atacama region, Chile). Quaternary International, 438, 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.04.033 This shapefile is distributed as supporting data for: Ulloa, C., Garcia, A. & Beniest, A. "Introducing a new normalized cryospheric index (NCI) to categorize sub-watersheds on arid environments." Manuscript egusphere-2025-1198 (EGUsphere / Copernicus). [Insert final journal reference and article DOI here upon publication] It is the source inventory from which the cryospheric landform polygons (andtheir coordinates) used in the NCI study were taken. Scope: this file contains the COMPLETE inventory (all mapped watersheds), not aCopiapo-only subset. It holds 6137 landform polygons across five watersheds(field COD_CUENC). The Copiapo watershed corresponds to COD_CUENC = 034 andcontains 1862 landforms, matching the figure reported in the NCI article. SeeSection 5 for the watershed codes and how to filter the Copiapo subset.