Dataset for Fjallsárlón Proglacial Lake, SE Iceland
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Description
Dataset for proglacial lake Fjallsárlón, SE Iceland including:
(1) Shapefiles for Historic lake area 1985 to 2016 for Figure 2a
(2) Shapefiles for lake area derived from Landsat-8 and -9 for 2017 to 2023 used for main data analysis
(3) Shapefiles for lake area derived from Sentinel-2 or 2017 to 2023 used for main data analysis
(4) Shapefiles for lake area derived from PlanetScope for 2017 to 2023 used for main data analysis
Methodology is given in the accompanying paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70253
Each zipped file has a README file with information of how to interpret naming convention.
This dataset also supports the thesis entitled: Proglacial lakes as indicators of subglacial hydrology: seasonal and diurnal dynamics at Fjallsarlon, Iceland. University of Southampton, September 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/01/T020
This work was supported by the Natural Environmental Research Council [grant number NE/2007210/1].