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Benchmark glaciers

http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/

Summary of the USGS benchmark glacier program to intensively monitor climate, glacier motion, glacier mass balance, glacier geometry, and stream runoff at three glacier basins, Gulkana and Wolverine in Alaska and South Cascade in Washington.

by Alaska Science Center (Sponsor) and Glacier & Snow Program (Sponsor)
Related topics:
Air temperature, Field inventory and monitoring, Glaciology, Hydrographic datasets, Hydrology, Snow and ice cover, Glacier features
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