USGS Benchmark Glacier Project Comprehensive Data Collection ...

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey Benchmark Glacier Program
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Geological Survey 2020
• Subjects: Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Glaciers, Ablation Zones/Accumulation Zones, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance, Glaciology, Geomorphology, Geology, Remote Sensing, glaciation, snow and ice cover, precipitation atmospheric, field inventory and monitoring, Wolverine Glacier, Gulkana Glacier, Sperry Glacier, South Cascade Glacier, Lemon Creek Glacier, Juneau Icefield; Cascade Glacier; Juneau Icefield; Lemon Creek; glacier; glaciers; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/p9agxqsr; https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-research-and-development-program/science/glaciers-and-climate-project#data

Mountain glaciers are closely coupled to climate processes, ecosystems, and regional water resources. To enhance physical understanding of these connections, the USGS maintains a collection of glacier mass balance and climate data across the western United States and Alaska. In some cases, records of glacier mass balance extend back to the mid-1940s. These data have been incorporated from various sources, primarily original USGS studies, but also including work from the University of Alaska, and the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). The core of this collection is composed of mass balance data from the USGS Benchmark Glaciers. These five glaciers are Lemon Creek Glacier, AK (1953 -Present), South Cascade Glacier, WA (1958 - Present), Gulkana and Wolverine glaciers, AK (1966 - Present), and Sperry Glacier, MT (2005 - Present). Datasets from each benchmark glacier are composed of, at a minimum, point mass balances, glacier hypsometry, daily temperature and precipitation, geodetic mass balances, and ...