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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Glacial lake outburst floods"”.
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Confronting Glacial Hazards: A Study of Disaster Impact and Community Adaptation to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Hunza, Pakistan
As climate change hastens glacial retreat across the world, high mountain communities face increasing risks from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) with limited capacity to mitigate their impact and recover from repeated cycles of losses. This thesis looks at the Hassanabad settlement in Hunza, …
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Quantifying environmental controls on the magnitude of glacial lake outburst floods and the resulting impacts to hydrology and geomorphology: Lago Cachet Dos, Patagonia, Chile
The sudden release of water from an ice-dammed lake poses substantial hazard to the downstream environment, but the degree to which peak discharge depends on environmental variables that change with climate remains unclear. We combine in situ measurements of environmental variables with …
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Drowned landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf : implications for northwest European landscape evolution and preservation potential for submerged heritage
… movement occurs on a local/regional scale. Proglacial lakes in the North Sea Basin may have been a common landform during glacial periods. They were fed by meltwater from the Fennoscandian and British-Irish ice- sheets causing their levels to rise and exert major pressure on their confining …
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Chilean glacial lake outburst flood impacts on dam construction
Four Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) occurred in the Colonia Glacier (Northern Patagonia Icefield, Chile) from April 2008 to March 2009. Lago Cachet 2 emptied four times producing a maximum excess discharge in the downstream Rio Baker of about 2,500 m3/s. These events have occurred at the same …
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Origin and stratigraphy of Holocene sediments, Souris and Des Lacs glacial-lake spillways, north-central North Dakota
… of the formation of the Souris and Des Lacs glacial-lake spillways has been proposed. Now, based on geomorphological evidence, it is concluded that the Souris and Des Lacs Valleys were formed by massive glacial-lake outburst floods at the end of the late Wisconsinan deglaciation. Five phases …
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WRF-based dynamical downscaling over High Mountain Asia
… to natural hazards, such as landslides and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Under climate change, the frequency of natural hazards is expected to increase, posing further threats to society and human lives in HMA. Due to the lack of meteorological data, the triggering mechanisms of …
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MODERN AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIER MARRIAGE IN GILGIT-BALTISTAN, PAKISTAN.
… patterns and climate hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods, flash floods, and extreme weather events have intensified water scarcity and disrupted livelihoods. Local communities understand these shifts through spiritual, ecological, and cultural lenses. For them, climate change …