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Research article
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15 Jul 2021
Research article |
| 15 Jul 2021
| 15 Jul 2021
Gulf of Alaska ice-marginal lake area change over the Landsat record and potential physical controls
Hannah R. Field
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC 28607, USA
School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
43210, USA
William H. Armstrong
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC 28607, USA
Matthias Huss
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich,
Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL),
Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg,
Switzerland
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Short summary
The growth of a glacier lake alters the hydrology, ecology, and glaciology of its surrounding region. We investigate modern glacier lake area change across northwestern North America using repeat satellite imagery. Broadly, we find that lakes downstream from glaciers grew, while lakes dammed by glaciers shrunk. Our results suggest that the shape of the landscape surrounding a glacier lake plays a larger role in determining how quickly a lake changes than climatic or glaciologic factors.
The growth of a glacier lake alters the hydrology, ecology, and glaciology of its surrounding...
