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Glacial lake mapping with very high resolution satellite SAR data
... We reported on the use of very high resolution satellite SAR data for reliable and robust glacial lake mapping. Dur- ing the data interpretation, confusion with wet snow and wet sand areas has to be taken ...
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Lemthang Tsho glacial Lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Bhutan: cause and impact
... from glacial lake LC2 in Patagonia, Chile (Jacquet et ...Guangxieco Lake in Tibet, China killed 5 people, swept away 51 houses, and destroyed a ranch and a ...
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Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods as a consequence of climate change in the Himalayan region
... 9000 glacial lakes were documented in the Himalayan region from 1999 to ...a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), causing catastrophic flooding in the downstream riparian areas (Richardson & ...
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Glacier change and glacial lake outburst flood risk in the Bolivian Andes
... a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazard, as moraine dam integrity reduces over time, leading to dam failure, and as mass movements of ice, snow, and rock from surround- ing valley slopes impact lakes, ...
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Modeling a glacial lake outburst flood process chain: the case of Lake Palcacocha and Huaraz, Peru
... of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) from lakes that have formed at the base of retreating ...into glacial lakes, initiating a chain of processes that may culminate in significant inundation and ...
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Numerical modelling of glacial lake outburst floods using physically based dam-breach models
... Abstract. The instability of moraine-dammed proglacial lakes creates the potential for catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in high-mountain regions. In this research, we use a unique ...
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Glacial Lake Pickering: Stratigraphy and chronology of a proglacial lake dammed by the North Sea Lobe of the British-Irish Ice Sheet
... the Glacial Lake Pickering shorelines (45–70 m OD) because they relate to alluvial fans receiving progressively larger volumes of debris and adjusting to falling shallow lake ...to lake ...
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Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal
... recurrent glacial lake outburst floods ...supraglacial lake, located at a dis- tance of ...the lake basin was mapped by combining differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) measurements ...
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Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods
... a glacial lake grows to a volume where a sudden release of glacial lake water can exceed a normal year’s peak instantaneous ...eventual lake development and growth and eventually a ...
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Time Series Analysis of Glacial Lake in Western Himalayas Based on NDWI and MNDWI
... of glacial ice has also been found to increase quite rapidly since the modern men have started to pollute the natural resources abundantly and ...altitude glacial lakes which can cause real big problems if ...
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Use of Regional Scale Field and Modelling Methods to Evaluate Nearshore Groundwater Discharge to a Large Glacial Lake
... In lake environments specifically, several smaller scale studies have been conducted to investigate hydrogeologic controls on groundwater ...large glacial lake, along a 240 m shoreline segment, using ...
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Magnetostratigraphy of glacial lake sediments and dating of Pleistocene glacial deposits in Tasmania
... Similarly, the stereoplots of site data from the Mersey-Forth area and the King Valley have been used to support the Late and Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy, as well as the Early Pleist[r] ...
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On the water hazards in the trans-boundary Kosi River basin
... ing glacial lake outburst, debris flow, landslides, flooding, drought, soil erosion and ...socio-economics. Glacial lake outbursts are a huge threat to the local popula- tion in the region and ...
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Large drainages from short-lived glacial lakes in the Teskey Range, Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia
... from glacial lakes occurred during 2006–2014 in the western Teskey Range, Kyrgyzs- ...Kashkasuu glacial lake in 2006 was 194 000 m 3 , at western Zyndan lake in 2008 was 437 000 m 3 , at Jeruy ...
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Changing glacial lakes and associated outburst floods risks in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Indian Himalaya
... Abstract Glacial lakes and associated outburst floods (GLOFs) have increased in the Himalayan region due to climate change during the last century that has led to huge losses to ...map glacial lakes, their ...
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Warm summers and rich biotic communities during N Hemisphere deglaciation
... in glacial lake sediments are ...on glacial lake sediments dated 41 to the early Holocene ...the glacial lake and along the shores with forest on recently deglaciated ...that ...
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Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes
... potential glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) threat to downstream communities in many mountain ...predict lake volume given a measurement of lake surface area obtained from satellite ...that ...
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Glacial and geomorphic effects of a supraglacial lake drainage and outburst event, Everest region, Nepal Himalaya
... proglacial lake for- mation (Benn et ...supraglacial lake represents an early stage of base-level lake development (Watanabe et ...moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods due to a ...
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Investigating potential climatic cycles in glacially-influenced rhythmites of the upper Gowganda Formation using geochemical, sedimentological and spectral analyses
... from glacial ice and across the surface of a glacial lake, generating slow epilimnial currents that transport sediment away from the ice sheet (Parish and Bromwich, 1991; Ashley, ...
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The Quaternary sequence of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: areas of specific interest and ongoing investigations
... late glacial melting of buried dead ice occurred ...the lake basin morphology by new depressions, which were filled by glaciofluvial in- and ...Late Glacial period (“Meiendorf-Interstadial”, ...the ...
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