Pro‐glacial lake sedimentation from jökulhlaups (GLOF), Blåmannsisen, northern Norway

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Xu, Mengzhen, Bogen, Jim, Wang, Zhaoyin, Bønsnes, Truls E., Gytri, Stine
• Other Authors: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate ‘Impact of climate change on sediment transport’ and Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology, Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Blåmannsisen; Dammed Lake; Glacial Lake; Norway; Rundvatnet; Øvre; glacier; Ice cap; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3664; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fesp.3664; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.3664

Abstract Outburst floods from glacier‐dammed lakes are major events associated with glacier thinning and volume reduction. This paper investigates jökulhlaups emanating from the glacier‐dammed lake Øvre Messingmalmvatn at Rundvassbreen, an outlet glacier of the Blåmannsisen ice cap in northern Norwa...