Title
Reconstruction of North American Drainage Basins and River Discharge Since the Last Glacial Maximum
Published Date
2016-09-13
Authors
Author Contact
Wickert, Andrew D (awickert@umn.edu)
Type
Dataset
Image
Video or Animation
Spatial Data
Abstract
Drainage basins and river discharges since the Last Glacial Maximum; released along with the article "Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum" to appear in the journal "Earth Surface Dynamics".
Description
Changes in major drainage basins and river discharges across North American since the Last Glacial Maximum from calculations based on five different reconstructions of past ice sheets and glacial-isostatic adjustment. River discharges are stored as Numpy binary files. Drainage basins are stored as shapefiles. Images and videos are available for each ice-sheet and glaical-isostatic adjustment model tested. These images show past topography and sea level, drainage basin extents as black lines, rivers with local flow greater than 1000 cubic meters per second as blue lines, and the footprint of the ice-sheet as a semitransparent light-colored region. Ages are in the folder and file names for the drainage basins and the images, and take the form, "0XXXXX', where this is the number of years before present (i.e. before 1950) that the rivers of North America are simulated to be structured as shown.
Funding information
Sponsorship:
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE 1144083; Emmy Noether Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through funds awarded to T. Schildgen under Grant No. SCHI 1241/1-1; Start-up funds from the University of Minnesota
Referenced by
Wickert, A. D. Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum, Earth Surf. Dynam. Discuss.
Related to
Ice Age Rivers: a collection of codes and materials used to produce the images and videos
North American Deglaciation: a static version of codes and outputs that accompany the paper "Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum"
License
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Suggested Citation
Wickert, Andrew D.
(2016). Reconstruction of North American Drainage Basins and River Discharge Since the Last Glacial Maximum.
Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota,
http://doi.org/10.13020/D6D01H.