Prediction and assessment of multiple glacial lake outburst floods scenario in Pho Chu River basin, Bhutan

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-274

  Osti, Rabindra ^a   Egashira, Shinji ^a   Adikari, Yognath ^a  

^a PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assessment; Bhutan; GLOF; Moraine dam breach; Prediction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; BHUTAN; DAM BREACH; GLOF; SIMULATION;

DAMS; EROSION; FORECASTING; LAKES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

FLOODS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAM; FLOOD; GLACIAL LAKE; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTBURST; PREDICTION; RIVER BED;

BHUTAN;

EID: 84872193521     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8342     Document Type: Article

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