Data From: The Geography of Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields in the American West

Authors

Andrew G. Fountain, Portland State UniversityFollow
Bryce Glenn, Portland State UniversityFollow
Hassan J. Basagic, Portland State UniversityFollow

Sponsor

This work was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey Western Mountain Initiative and the U.S. Forest Service.

Document Type

Dataset

Publication Date

2023

Subjects

Glaciers -- Inventories -- West (U.S.), Glaciers -- West (U.S.) -- Measurement

Abstract

A comprehensive mid-20th century inventory of glaciers and perennial snowfields (G&PS) was compiled for the American West, west of the 100° meridian. The inventory was derived from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000 topographic maps based on aerial photographs acquired during 35 years,1955–1990.

Description

The data supports a manuscript published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, “The Geography of Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields in the American West”. http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21113

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The data sets below contain digital elevation models of the glacier populated regions and shape files of the glaciers and perennial snowfields in Arc and GeoJSON formats.

Rights

This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal

DOI

10.15760/geology-data.04

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39247

Recommended Citation

Fountain, Andrew G.; Glenn, Bryce; and Basagic, Hassan J., "Data From: The Geography of Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields in the American West" (2023). Geology Faculty Datasets. 4. https://doi.org/10.15760/geology-data.04