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Viani, Cristina (2018): Inventories of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps from the 1930s to 2012 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896023, Supplement to: Viani, Cristina; Giardino, Marco; Huggel, Christian; Perotti, Luigi; Mortara, Giovanni (2016): An overview of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps form 1927 to 2014 based on multiple data sources (historical maps, orthophotos and reports of the glaciological surveys). Geografia Fisica E Dinamica Quaternaria, 39, 203-214, https://doi.org/10.4461/GFDQ.2016.39.19

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Published: 2018-11-15 • DOI registered: 2018-12-18

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Abstract:
Through the analysis of historical topographic maps and digital orthophotos, glacier lakes (and related features) of the Western Italian Alps (Piemonte and Aosta Valley regions) within the LIA maximum extent boundaries have been identified and digitalized in a GIS environment . Six glacier lake inventories have been produced, related to six different time steps: 1930s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2006-07 and 2012. A set of attributes has been assigned to each lake: area, perimeter, elevation, geographic coordinates of the barycenter and detection year. Finally, each lake has been associated to the corresponding alpine supergroup according to the International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps, ISMSA-SOUISA.
A general overview of the main morphometric, geomorphologic and geographic features of lakes of each time step has been provided. Results of the present research can contribute to reconstruct and to interpret the spatiotemporal evolution of the phenomenon and to improve the knowledge about the interactions between glacier and related glacier lakes.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 45.670436 * Median Longitude: 7.519389 * South-bound Latitude: 44.122660 * West-bound Longitude: 6.817140 * North-bound Latitude: 46.409440 * East-bound Longitude: 8.391760
Date/Time Start: 1925-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-01-01T00:00:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for the 1930s. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896015
  2. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for the 1970s. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896017
  3. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for the 1980s. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896018
  4. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for the 1990s. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896019
  5. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for 2006. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896020
  6. Viani, C (2018): Inventory of glacier lakes in the Western Italian Alps for 2012. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896021