High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

D Li, X Lu, DE Walling, T Zhang, JF Steiner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming-induced melting and thawing of the cryosphere are severely altering the
volume and timing of water supplied from High Mountain Asia, adversely affecting …

Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Subsurface multi‐physical monitoring of a reservoir landslide with the fiber‐optic nerve system

X Ye, HH Zhu, J Wang, Q Zhang, B Shi… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reservoir landslides are typical geohazards with sophisticated thermo‐hydro‐mechanical
interactions. However, direct observations of subsurface multi‐physical processes in bank …

More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water–a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods

M Dietze, R Bell, U Ozturk, KL Cook… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Rapidly evolving floods are rare but powerful drivers of landscape reorganisation that have
severe and long-lasting impacts on both the functions of a landscape's subsystems and the …

Potential seismic precursors and surficial dynamics of a deadly Himalayan disaster: An early warning approach

A Tiwari, K Sain, A Kumar, J Tiwari, A Paul, N Kumar… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract On 7 February 2021, Chamoli district (Uttarakhand, India) was devastated by a
deadly rock-ice avalanche that led to a large causality of more than 200 people and a huge …

The Sikkim flood of October 2023: Drivers, causes and impacts of a multihazard cascade

A Sattar, KL Cook, SK Rai, E Berthier, S Allen, S Rinzin… - Science, 2025 - science.org
On 3 October 2023, a multihazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalaya, India, was triggered by
14.7 million m3 of frozen lateral moraine collapsing into South Lhonak Lake, generating an …

Seismic advances in process geomorphology

KL Cook, M Dietze - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One of the pillars of geomorphology is the study of geomorphic processes and their drivers,
dynamics, and impacts. Like all activity that transfers energy to Earth's surface, a wide range …

Bi‐linear laws govern the impacts of debris flows, debris avalanches, and rock avalanches on flexible barrier

Y Kong, M Guan, X Li, J Zhao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Geophysical mass flows impacting flexible barriers can create complex flow patterns and
multiway solid‐fluid‐structure interactions, wherein estimates of impact loads rely …

Selected global flood preparation and response lessons: implications for more resilient Chinese Cities

FKS Chan, Z Wang, J Chen, X Lu, T Nafea, B Montz… - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
Urban populations are rising globally, and more extreme climate events are occurring, which
means more people are exposed to flood hazards such as pluvial, fluvial, coastal and …

Catastrophic ice-debris flow in the Rishiganga river, Chamoli, Uttarakhand (India)

VK Pandey, R Kumar, R Singh, R Kumar… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
A catastrophic flood occurred on 7 February 2021 around 10: 30 AM (local time) in the
Rishiganga River, which has been attributed to a rockslide in the upper reach of the Raunthi …