Monitoring of Bashkara Glacier lakes (Central Caucasus, Russia) and modelling of their potential outburst

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1293-1316

  Petrakov, D A ^a   Tutubalina, O V ^a   Aleinikov, A A ^a,b   Chernomorets, S S ^a   Evans, S G ^c   Kidyaeva, V M ^a   Krylenko, I N ^a   Norin, S V ^a   Shakhmina, M S ^a   Seynova, I B ^d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ScanEx Research and Development Center   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d University Centre for Engineering Geodynamics and Monitoring   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Glacier lake change; Glacier lakes; GLOF modelling; Hazard assessment; Outburst flood; Russian Caucasus

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; OUTBURST; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER LEVEL; ZONATION;

BASHKARA GLACIER; KABARDINO-BALKARIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84858793288     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9983-5     Document Type: Article

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