Identification of Hazard and Risk for Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya Using Satellite Imagery from 2000–2015 [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2017 Glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya can threaten downstream communities and have large socio-economic consequences if an outburst flood occurs. This study identified 131 glacial lakes in Nepal in 2015 that are greater than 0.1 km2 and performed a first ...
David R. Rounce +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionAs a vital component within glacier systems, the occurrences of glacial lake disasters in high mountain regions have progressively emerged as one of the most destructive natural calamities amid the backdrop of global warming.
Zhengquan Liu +18 more
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Baseline data for monitoring geomorphological effects of glacier lake outburst flood: a very-high-resolution image and GIS datasets of the distal part of the Zackenberg River, northeast Greenland [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2021 The polar regions experience widespread transformations, such that efficient methods are needed to monitor and understand Arctic landscape changes in response to climate warming and low-frequency, high-magnitude hydrological and geomorphological events ...
A. M. Tomczyk, M. W. Ewertowski
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2021 Large periodic glacial outburst flood events replenish inorganic carbon concentrations and fuel the primary productivity of benthic microbial communities in the perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee.
Benoit Faucher +5 more
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 133-151., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
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Retrospective analysis and hazard assessment of Gega glacial lake in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis
Natural Hazards Research, 2022 The frequency of glacier related hazards like Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) is increasing in the High Mountain Asia due to global climate warming.
Kaiheng Hu +4 more
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Modelling outburst floods from moraine-dammed glacial lakes [PDF]
Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 In response to climatic change, the size and number of moraine-dammed supraglacial and proglacial lake systems have increased dramatically in recent decades. Given an appropriate trigger, the natural moraine dams that impound these proglacial lakes are breached, producing catastrophic Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs).
M.J. Westoby +5 more
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 An April 2020 glacial lake outburst flood from Lago Greve, Chilean Patagonia, released approximately 3.7 ± 0.2 km3 of water, according to space-borne altimetry and optical observations, and represents one of the largest such events of the satellite era.
Shuntaro Hata +2 more
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Assessing downstream flood impacts due to a potential GLOF from Imja Tsho in Nepal [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015 Glacial-dominated areas pose unique challenges to downstream communities in adapting to recent and continuing global climate change, including increased threats of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) that can increase risk due to flooding of downstream ...
M. A. Somos-Valenzuela +5 more
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Danger! Glacial lake outburst floods ahead!
TheScienceBreaker, 2023 The sudden release of water and sediment from glacial lakes, known as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), are a major natural hazard that can result in significant life loss. The danger of GLOFs varies globally, however in 2020, GLOFs threatened 15 million people.
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