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Ice-margin change (advance/recession) at the terrestrial, lacustrine and marine margins of the south-western sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1987 and 2015
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01498

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A dataset of ice-margin change (advance/recession) at the south-western sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet, comprising data from 3325 terrestrial, 439 lacustrine and 35 marine ice-margins respectively. The dataset also comprises measures of ice-marginal lake parameters including area and intersect (length of the lake - ice-margin interface). Measurements were made at approximately five year intervals (epochs) from 1987 to 2015. The ice sheet margin and adjacent ice-marginal lakes were delineated by applying the Normalised Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and the Normalised Difference Water Index (NDWI) respectively to Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI scenes. Ice-margin changes were measured relative to a series of fixed reference points. The dataset was generated to facilitate comparison of changes at the disparate ice-marginal environments of the ice sheet and investigate temporal patterns of ice-margin recession. The dataset was created and processed by researchers in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool.

Keywords:
Greenland Ice Sheet, ice-marginal lake, outlet glacier, proglacial lake, tidewater glacier

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Mallalieu, J., Carrivick, J., Quincey, D., & Raby, C. (2021). Ice-margin change (advance/recession) at the terrestrial, lacustrine and marine margins of the south-western sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1987 and 2015 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/ebfbbe88-902b-4c74-9b62-07101d89e509

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