Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367239

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Inventory and recently increasing GLOF susceptibility of glacial lakes in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Geomorphology

ISSN

0169-555X

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

30

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

295

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

39-54

Kód UT WoS článku

000413175000004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85030455949