Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Jones, Benjamin M., Arp, Christopher D., Grosse, Guido, Nitze, Ingmar, Lara, Mark J., Whitman, Matthew S., Farquharson, Louise M., Kanevskiy, Mikhail, Parsekian, Andrew D., Breen, Amy L., Ohara, Nori, Rangel, Rodrigo Correa, Hinkel, Kenneth M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Scale Lake; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074070/; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2038

Arctic lakes located in permafrost regions are susceptible to catastrophic drainage. In this study, we reconstructed historical lake drainage events on the western Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska between 1955 and 2017 using USGS topographic maps, historical aerial photography (1955), and Landsat Imag...