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The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment
Guoxiong Zheng
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute
of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 830011 Ürümqi, China
Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA),
Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva,
Switzerland
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
Martin Mergili
Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, 8010
Graz, Austria
Institute of Applied Geology, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences (BOKU), 1190 Vienna, Austria
Adam Emmer
Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, 8010
Graz, Austria
Simon Allen
Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA),
Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva,
Switzerland
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich,
Switzerland
Anming Bao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute
of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 830011 Ürümqi, China
China-Pakistan Joint Research Centre on Earth Sciences, CAS-HEC, 45320
Islamabad, Pakistan
School of Geography and Tourism, Qufu Normal University, 276800
Rizhao, China
Markus Stoffel
Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA),
Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva,
Switzerland
Dendrolab.ch, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205
Geneva, Switzerland
Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences,
University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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Short summary
This paper reports on a recent glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) event that occurred on 26 June 2020 in Tibet, China. We find that this event was triggered by a debris landslide from a steep lateral moraine. As the relationship between the long-term evolution of the lake and its likely landslide trigger revealed by a time series of satellite images, this case provides strong evidence that it can be plausibly linked to anthropogenic climate change.
This paper reports on a recent glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) event that occurred on 26 June...
