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 …

Records of the frequency and magnitude of floods are needed on centennial or millennial
timescales to place increases in their occurrence and intensity into a longer-term context …

There is growing recognition that sedimentary deposits related to high-energy, large-scale,
freshwater floods are widespread across the continents and, in the main, can be related to …

Himalayan water resources attract a rapidly growing number of hydroelectric power projects
(HPP) to satisfy Asia's soaring energy demands. Yet HPP operating or planned in steep …

Sudden breaching of a saddle dam on July 23, 2018, on the perimeter of the Xe Nammoy
hydroelectric-power reservoir, recently constructed in the Mekong basin, southern Laos …

The very largest glacier outburst floods have been termed 'megafloods' given their volume
and peak discharge. That definition might be revised because those floods have become …

The presence of glacial lakes in the Himalaya makes it a potential mountain hazard, as
catastrophic failure of such waterbodies may lead to high-magnitude glacial lake outburst …

Outburst floods in mountainous landscapes traverse complex topography and interact with
the channel and valley walls, producing intense flow hydraulics that drive geomorphic …

Both regular flow and infrequent outburst floods shape the mountain landscape, but their
relative contributions have been widely debated, in part due to the paucity of quantitative …

Two large landslides in October and November 2018 sequentially dammed the **sha river
at Baige village, eastern Tibet, China. Subsequently, breaching of each dam induced …