Science bulletin
Mitigating future glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya.
Xue Wang, Wenfeng Chen, Guoqing Zhang, Adam Emmer, Holger Frey, Caroline Taylor, Christian Huggel, Ashim Sattar, Guoxiong Zheng, Irfan Rashid, Jonathan L Carrivick, Georg Veh, Simon Allen, Jakob Steiner, Duncan Quincey
Published: 202610.1016/j.scib.2025.11.024
Abstract
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are among the most severe cryospheric hazards in the Himalaya. While previous studies have primarily focused on the characteristics and causes of GLOFs, strategies for mitigating their disaster impacts remain unde…
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