Glacier-Wide Mass Balance and Input Data: Alaska Benchmark Glaciers, 1966-2016

• Main Authors: Shad O'Neel (ORCID: 0000-0002-9185-0144), Louis C. Sass (ORCID: 0000-0003-4677-029X), Christopher J. McNeil (ORCID: 0000-0003-4170-0428), Daniel McGrath (ORCID: 0000-0002-9462-6842)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: Cryosphere; Glaciers/Ice Sheets; Glaciers; Ablation Zones/Accumulation Zones; Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation; Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance; Glaciology; geoscientificInformation; Snow and ice cover; Glaciation; Gulkana Glacier; Wolverine Glacier; Alaska; glacier; glaciers; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/1b31fdc1-ea1c-4dfd-8a3e-4441157a0412

Since the late 1950s, USGS has maintained a long-term glacier mass-balance program at three North American glaciers. Similar measurements began at Sperry Glacier, MT in 2005. Direct field measurements are combined with weather data and imagery analyses to estimate the seasonal and annual mass balanc...