Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4145-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4145-2021
Research article
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30 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 30 Aug 2021

Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region

Melanie Fischer, Oliver Korup, Georg Veh, and Ariane Walz

Data sets

GLOFsusceptibility: First release of the GLOF susceptibility model (Version v.1.0) Fischer, Melanie, Korup, Oliver, Veh, Georg and Walz, Ariane https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4161577

Model code and software

GLOFsusceptibility: First release of the GLOF susceptibility model (Version v.1.0) Fischer, Melanie, Korup, Oliver, Veh, Georg and Walz, Ariane https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4161577

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Short summary
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in the greater Himalayan region threaten local communities and infrastructure. We assess this hazard objectively using fully data-driven models. We find that lake and catchment area, as well as regional glacier-mass balance, credibly raised the susceptibility of a glacial lake in our study area to produce a sudden outburst. However, our models hardly support the widely held notion that rapid lake growth increases GLOF susceptibility.