Sub-Annual To Annual Dynamics Of Alaskan Ice-Marginal Lakes From Automated Image Classification Using Google Earth Engine

• Main Authors: Hengst, Anthony Matthew, NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Glacial Lake; Marginal Lake; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Hengst_Anthony_2020_Honors GES Thesis.pdf

Ice-marginal lakes play an important role in glacier dynamics and downstream hydrology. Proglacial lakes may alter glacial mass loss by enabling submarine melt and by providing a body of water into which glaciers may calve, and provide a basin which traps glacial sediment. Ice-dammed lakes play a cr...