Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

G Zhang, JL Carrivick, A Emmer, DH Shugar… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Global glacier mass loss has accelerated, producing more and larger glacial lakes. Many of
these glacial lakes are a source of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), which pose threats …

The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

M Beniston, D Farinotti, M Stoffel, LM Andreassen… - The …, 2018‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019‏ - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

T Bolch, JM Shea, S Liu, FM Azam, Y Gao… - The Hindu Kush …, 2019‏ - Springer
The cryosphere is defined by the presence of frozen water in its many forms: glaciers, ice
caps, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. In the extended Hindu Kush …

[HTML][HTML] 21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

A Gobiet, S Kotlarski, M Beniston, G Heinrich… - Science of the total …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Reliable estimates of future climate change in the Alps are relevant for large parts of the
European society. At the same time, the complex Alpine region poses considerable …

[PDF][PDF] Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment

N Nicholls, D Easterling, CM Goodess… - Managing the risks …, 2012‏ - library.harvard.edu
A changing climate can lead to changes in the frequency, intensity or duration of an extreme
event, or result in an 3 unprecedented, previously unobserved, extreme. As well, a weather …

Increasing risks related to landslides from degrading permafrost into new lakes in de-glaciating mountain ranges

W Haeberli, Y Schaub, C Huggel - Geomorphology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
While glacier volumes in most cold mountain ranges rapidly decrease due to continued
global warming, degradation of permafrost at altitudes above and below glaciers is much …

Modelling outburst floods from moraine-dammed glacial lakes

MJ Westoby, NF Glasser, J Brasington… - Earth-Science …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
In response to climatic change, the size and number of moraine-dammed supraglacial and
proglacial lake systems have increased dramatically in recent decades. Given an …

Effects of climate change on mass movements in mountain environments

M Stoffel, C Huggel - Progress in physical geography, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Changes in temperature and precipitation have a range of impacts, including change of
glacier extent, extent and duration of snow cover, and distribution and thermal properties of …

Assessment of potential present and future glacial lake outburst flood hazard in the Hunza valley: A case study of Shisper and Mochowar glacier

H Singh, D Varade, MVW de Vries, K Adhikari… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In Himalayas, new glacial lake formation and expansion of existing glacial lakes have
occurred as a consequence of the increasing temperature and glacier recession. These …