Glacial lake evolution and glacier–lake interactions in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya, 1964–2017

• Main Authors: Zhang, Guoqing, Bolch, Tobias, Allen, Simon, Linsbauer, Andreas, Chen, Wenfeng, Wang, Weicai
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2019
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; Earth-Surface Processes; Glacial Lake; New Lakes; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/177466/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/177466/1/2019_Zhang_glacial_lake_evolution_and_glacierlake_interactions_in_the_poiqu_river_basin_central_himalaya_19642017.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-177466; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.13

Despite previous studies, glacier–lake interactions and future lake development in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya, are still not well understood. We mapped glacial lakes, glaciers, their frontal positions and ice flow from optical remote sensing data, and calculated glacier surface elevatio...