IcePicks: a collaborative database of Greenland outlet glacier termini
About
IcePicks is a cross-institution collaboration of graduate students and faculty researchers to produce a database of manually digitized terminus picks of marine-terminating glaciers and an inter-comparison of picking techniques to determine errors and best practices for future efforts in digitization. These data are being cleaned, associated with appropriate metadata, and compiled so they can be easily accessed by scientists. Ultimately, these data will be used to create training data for further automatic picking efforts.
Lead Team Members
Sophie Goliber University of Texas at Austin
Taryn Black University of Washington
Dr. James Lea University of Liverpool
Daniel Lop-Chi Cheng University of California Irvine
Dr. Ginny A Catania University of Texas at Austin University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics
Current Data Sources
Published Sources
Andersen, J. K., Fausto, R. S., Hansen, K., Box, J. E., Andersen, S. B., Ahlstrøm, A. P., As, D. van, Citterio, M., Colgan, W., Karlsson, N. B., Kjeldsen, K. K., Korsgaard, N. J., Larsen, S. H., Mankoff, K. D., Pedersen, A. Ø., Shields, C. L., Solgaard, A., & Vandecrux, B. (2019). Update of annual calving front lines for 47 marine terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland (1999–2018). GEUS Bulletin, 43. https://doi.org/10.34194/GEUSB-201943-02-02
Carr, J. Rachel, Stokes, Chris. R., & Vieli, A. (2017). Threefold increase in marine-terminating outlet glacier retreat rates across the Atlantic Arctic: 1992–2010. Annals of Glaciology, 58(74), 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2017.3
Carr, J. Rachel, Vieli, A., & Stokes, C. (2013). Influence of sea ice decline, atmospheric warming, and glacier width on marine-terminating outlet glacier behavior in northwest Greenland at seasonal to interannual timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118(3), 1210–1226. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrf.20088
Carr, J.R., Vieli, A., Stokes, C. R., Jamieson, S. S. R., Palmer, S. J., Christoffersen, P., Dowdeswell, J. A., Nick, F. M., Blankenship, D. D., & Young, D. A. (2015). Basal topographic controls on rapid retreat of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 61(225), 137–150. https://doi.org/10.3189/2015JoG14J128
Catania, G. A., Stearns, L. A., Sutherland, D. A., Fried, M. J., Bartholomaus, T. C., Morlighem, M., Shroyer, E., & Nash, J. (2018). Geometric Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat in Central Western Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123(8), 2024–2038. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004499
Cowton, T. R., Sole, A. J., Nienow, P. W., Slater, D. A., & Christoffersen, P. (2018). Linear response of east Greenland’s tidewater glaciers to ocean/atmosphere warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(31), 7907–7912. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801769115
Joughin, I., Smith, B. E., Howat, I. M., Moon, T., & Scambos, T. A. (2016). A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 62(231), 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.10
Murray, T., Scharrer, K., Selmes, N., Booth, A. D., James, T. D., Bevan, S. L., Bradley, J., Cook, S., Llana, L. C., Drocourt, Y., Dyke, L., Goldsack, A., Hughes, A. L., Luckman, A. J., & McGovern, J. (2015). Extensive retreat of Greenland tidewater glaciers, 2000–2010. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 47(3), 427–447. https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0014-049
By request
Carolyn Roberts & Beata Csatho (Helheim; Yearly)
Suzanne Bevan & Adrian Luckman
Enze Zhang (Publication in review)
Michael Wood (Publication in review)
Dominik Fahrner (Publication in review)
Emily Hill (Northern Greenland)
Daniel Cheng (Publication in review)
How to submit data
Please fill out this simple form and then you will receive an email with a link to submit your data to our shared Google Drive.