Recent changes in Imja Glacial Lake and its damming moraine in the Nepal Himalaya revealed by in situ surveys and multi-temporal ASTER imagery

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fujita, Koji ^a   Sakai, Akiko ^a   Nuimura, Takayuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^b   Sharma, Rishi R ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c Technology and Environment   (Nepal)

Author keywords

ASTER; Glacial lake; Himalaya

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; EXPANSION; GLOBAL WARMING;

ASTER; ASTER IMAGE; CONTINUOUS SURFACE; EXPANSION RATE; GLACIAL LAKES; HIMALAYAN GLACIAL LAKE; HIMALAYAS; MULTI-TEMPORAL;

LAKES;

EID: 76149091560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045205     Document Type: Article

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