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Elevations of Glacial Dammed Lakes Measured by the Surface Water Ocean Topography Satellite from April 2023 through May 2025 (updated 2025-08-19)

August 21, 2025

This dataset contains satellite-derived information on lake elevations for selected glacial dammed lakes (GDLs) monitored by the National Weather Service Alaska-Pacific River Forecasting Center in Anchorage, Alaska, as well as several Alaska lakes collocated with monitoring gages. The lake elevation data are derived from satellite-observed water surface elevations from the Surface Water Ocean Topography Level 2 Version C pixel cloud data product. Data include both the raw pixel cloud elevations and corresponding data quality flags for each lake organized in ZIP packages, as well as a master comma separated values file and a spatial geojson file that provide time series of lake-area-averaged pixel cloud water surface elevations for all lakes in the dataset.

Publication Year 2025
Title Elevations of Glacial Dammed Lakes Measured by the Surface Water Ocean Topography Satellite from April 2023 through May 2025 (updated 2025-08-19)
DOI 10.5066/P1UR7DHM
Authors Merritt E Harlan, Alek A. Hernes, Michael Durand, Benjamin Johnson, Robert Busey, Bidhyananda Yadav, Robert W Dudley, Chuck A. Hansen
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Water Resources Mission Area - Headquarters
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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