Surge dynamics and lake outbursts of Kyagar Glacier, Karakoram

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Round, Vanessa, Leinss, Silvan, Huss, Matthias, Haemmig, Christoph, Hajnsek, Irena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Dammed Lake; Glacial Lake; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-723-2017; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00042582; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00042202/tc-11-723-2017.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/11/723/2017/tc-11-723-2017.pdf

The recent surge cycle of Kyagar Glacier, in the Chinese Karakoram, caused formation of an ice-dammed lake and subsequent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) exceeding 40 million m3 in 2015 and 2016. GLOFs from Kyagar Glacier reached double this size in 2002 and earlier, but the role of glacier sur...