Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition

Landslides

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1479-1491

  Allen, S K ^a,b   Rastner, P ^a,c   Arora, M ^d   Huggel, C ^a   Stoffel, M ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disaster; Glacial lake outburst; Himalaya; Rainfall; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DEBRIS; DISASTERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RAIN; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; GLACIAL LAKES; GLACIER LAKE OUTBURSTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIMALAYAS; SNOWMELT; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRIGGERED FLASHES;

LAKES;

DEBRIS FLOW; FLASH FLOOD; GLACIAL LAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NATURAL DISASTER; OUTBURST; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; WATERSHED;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84929683443     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0584-3     Document Type: Article

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