Caitlyn E Florentine

Annual End-of-Summer Snow Cover on Glaciers in Alaska and Northwest Canada

This dataset contains observations of the distribution of end-of-summer snow cover on approximately 3000 glaciers across Alaska and Northwest Canada. The data are provided as: (1) GeoTIFF rasters indicating the spatial extent of end-of-summer snow cover on each glacier's surface in each year (one raster per glacier per year), and (2) yearly tables with the equilibrium line altitude and the accumulation area ratio of the glaciers derived from the snow cover extent geotiffs. Snow cover was identified in Sentinel-2 imagery using a random forest algorithm trained with a manually-created validation dataset. A series of post-processing steps were used to infill missing data from terrain shadowing and cloud cover, and...

Categories: Data; Tags: Accumulation Zones, Alaska, Canada, Cryosphere, GeoscientificInformation, All tags... Glacier Mass Balance, Glaciers, Glaciology, Glaciology, Snow, Snow and ice cover, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Fewer tags

Scanned field notebooks from a USGS Benchmark Glacier: South Cascade Glacier, Washington,1957 - 2022

This data release is a collection of data and field notes documenting snow and ice changes on South Cascade Glacier, Washington, USA. The field records relate to glaciological research and reflect evolving interpretations of glacier mass balance, climatology, hydrology, and other glacier-related research conducted at the site between 1957 to 2022 in association with the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project. Notebooks have been scanned in their entirety in PDF format. The USGS Benchmark Glacier Project has monitored targeted mountain glaciers across North America since research was initiated at South Cascade Glacier in 1957. Data from the five benchmark glaciers located in Alaska, Washington, and Montana, provide continental-scale...

Categories: Data; Tags: South Cascade Glacier, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, benchmark glacier, boundaries, All tags... climatology, economy, glacier, hydrology, mass balance, snow and ice cover, Fewer tags