Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

2021/05/01 by Guoxiong Zheng, Simon Keith Allen, Simon Allen +11 · 418 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · #Archaeology #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Climate change #Climatology #Cryospheric studies and observations #Deglaciation #Environmental science #Flood myth #Geography #Geology #Geomorphology #Glacial lake #Glacial period #Glacier #Global warming #Natural hazard #Oceanography #Physical geography #Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

paper · doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01028-3

published in Nature Climate Change 11(5), 411-417 (Nature Portfolio)

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• Recent climate changes over the Tibetan Plateau and their impacts on energy and water cycle: A review
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• Review of the status and mass changes of Himalayan-Karakoram glaciers
• Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

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