Glacial lakes in the Indian Himalayas - From an area-wide glacial lake inventory to on-site and modeling based risk assessment of critical glacial lakes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Worni, Raphael ^a,b   Huggel, Christian ^a,c   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BASEMENT; Glacial lake inventory; Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF); Indian Himalayas; Risk assessment; Scenario modeling

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BASEMENT; GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOOD; GLACIAL LAKES; HIMALAYAS; SCENARIO MODELING;

LAKES;

CLIMATIC REGION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIATION; LAKE WATER; OUTBURST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GLACIAL LAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INDIA; LAKE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SIKKIM HIMALAYAS;

BASEMENT; GLACIAL LAKE INVENTORY; GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOOD (GLOF); INDIAN HIMALAYAS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCENARIO MODELING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE COVER; INDIA; LAKES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84891739439     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.043     Document Type: Article

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