Historic Lake Drainage from Remote Sensing Datasets, 1955-2017, Western Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska (US)

We identified all lakes larger than 10 hectares (ha) that drained completely or partially (greater than 25 %) between 1955 and 2017 using historical (original) USGS topographic maps and aerial photography (1955) and Landsat Imagery (circa 1975, circa 2000, and annually since 2000). For each lake drainage event, we inferred the drainage mechanism and categorized the drainage pathway based on known lake drainage mechanisms using interpretation of high-resolution remote sensing data and field observations.

Detailed information about the methods can be found in the data publication and the publication to which this dataset is a supplement.

Citation

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Benjamin Jones, Christopher Arp, Guido Grosse, Ingmar Nitze, Mark Lara, et al. 2019. Historic Lake Drainage on the Western Arctic Coastal Plain in Northern Alaska from Remote Sensing Datasets, 1955-2017. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2DR2P85H.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Source https://doi.org/10.18739/A2DR2P85H
Principal Investigator None
Data Curator Jones, Benjamin M.
Version 1.0
Last Updated September 16, 2020, 15:16 (+0200)
Created September 16, 2020, 15:16 (+0200)
Is Supplement to Jones, BM, Arp, CD, Grosse, G, et al. Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska. Permafrost and Periglac Process. 2020; 31: 110– 127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2038
Related to Benjamin Jones, Christopher Arp, Guido Grosse, Ingmar Nitze, Mark Lara, et al. 2019. Potential Future Lake Drainage for the Western Arctic Coastal Plain in northern Alaska from an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR)-Derived Digital Surface Model, 2002-2003. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2JH3D29N.
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