Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367239
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.06.014" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.06.014</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.06.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.06.014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya
Original language description
Climatic changes alter the climate system, leading to a decrease of glacier mass volumes and swelling glacial lakes. This study provides a new inventory of glacial and high-altitude lakes for Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, and evaluates the susceptibility of lakes to Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF). By using satellite data of high spatial resolution (5 m), we obtain 1104 glacial and high-altitude lakes with total area 30.498 km2, of which 472 have an area > 0.01 km2. Applying pre-defined GLOF susceptibility criteria on these 472 lakes yields 21 lakes susceptible to GLOF, which all increased in area from 1972–2015. Using Analytic Hierarchy Processes (AHP), the pairwise comparison matrix further reveals that 5 of these glacial lakes have low, 14 have medium and 2 have high GLOF susceptibility. Especially these 16 glacial lakes with high and medium GLOF susceptibility may threaten downstream communities and infrastructure and need further attention.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geomorphology
ISSN
0169-555X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
30
Issue of the periodical within the volume
295
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
39-54
UT code for WoS article
000413175000004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85030455949