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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Harrison, Stephan, Kargel, Jeffrey S., Huggel, Christian, Reynolds, John, Shugar, Dan H., Betts, Richard A., Emmer, Adam, Glasser, Neil, Haritashya, Umesh K., Klimes, Jan, Reinhardt, Liam, Schaub, Yvonne, Wiltshire, Andy, Regmi, Dhananjay, Vilimek, Vit
• Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Hydrol & Atmospher Sci, Tucson, AZ 85742 USA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2018
• Subjects: Glacial Lake; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627657; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1195-2018

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...