Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: S. Harrison, J. S. Kargel, C. Huggel, J. Reynolds, D. H. Shugar, R. A. Betts, A. Emmer, N. Glasser, U. K. Haritashya, J. Klimeš, L. Reinhardt, Y. Schaub, A. Wiltshire, D. Regmi, V. Vilímek
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: geo; envir; Glacial Lake; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1195-2018; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/1195/2018/tc-12-1195-2018.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/aae528b7547247dd8807d8ec380ab77d

Despite recent research identifying a clear anthropogenic impact on glacier recession, the effect of recent climate change on glacier-related hazards is at present unclear. Here we present the first global spatio-temporal assessment of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) focusing explicitly on lake...