Historic Lake Drainage on the Western Arctic Coastal Plain in Northern Alaska from Remote Sensing Datasets, 1955-2017

• Main Authors: Jones, Benjamin, Arp, Christopher, Grosse, Guido, Nitze, Ingmar, Lara, Mark, Whitman, Matthew, Farquharson, Louise, Kanevskiy, Mikhail, Parsekian, Andrew, Breen, Amy, Ohara, Nori, Rangel, Rodrigo, Hinkel, Kenneth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Lake; Lake Drainage; Drained Lake Basin; Thermokarst Lake; Arctic; Thermokarst; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2dr2p85h; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A2DR2P85H

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 dra...