Methods for assessing regional glacial lake variation and hazard in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A case study from the Boshula mountain range, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1441-1450

  Wang, Weicai ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Joswiak, Daniel ^a   Zhu, Meilin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Glacial lake outburst flood; Hazard assessment; Hydrodynamic modeling; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC WARMING; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOOD; GLACIAL LAKES; GROUND BASED; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEC-RAS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; MOUNTAIN RANGES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; REMOTE LOCATION; SATELLITE IMAGES; SECOND LEVEL; STUDY AREAS; THIRD LEVEL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; REMOTE SENSING;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GIS; GLACIAL LAKE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OUTBURST; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84867747144     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1589-z     Document Type: Article

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