Mendenhall Glacier / Suicide Basin outburst flood data, 2018-2019

• Main Authors: Kienholz, Christian, Pierce, Jamie, Wolken, Gabriel, Amundson, Jason, Hood, Eran
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: outburst flood; glacier; hydrology; unmanned aerial vehicle; Flood Glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2gt5fg0b; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2GT5FG0B

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, has been experiencing annual outburst floods that originate from Suicide Basin, an ice marginal basin. As part of a project aimed at understanding the dynamics of these floods and the threat that they pose, we collected (1) aerial imagery from an unmanned aerial vehicle that was used to construct orthomosaics, digital elevation models, and velocity fields of the ice-choked basin, (2) LIDAR data that was used to construct additional digital elevation models, (3) photos from the Alaska High-Altitude Aerial Photography project (AHAP) that was used to construct an orthomosaic, (4) glacier mass balance measurements, (5) meteorological data, and (6) water level measurements of the water in Suicide Basin.