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Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-591-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-591-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Research article
 | 
08 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 08 Feb 2023

Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Hongyu Duan, Xiaojun Yao, Yuan Zhang, Huian Jin, Qi Wang, Zhishui Du, Jiayu Hu, Bin Wang, and Qianxun Wang

Data sets

ASTER DEM Product NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST14DEM.003

Transferring a 30-m resolution sample set collected in 2015 to mapping 10-m resolution global land cover in 2017 (http://data.ess.tsinghua.edu.cn/fromglc10_2017v01.html) P. Gong, H. Liu, M. N. Zhang, C. C. Li, J. Wang, H. B. Huang, N. Clinton, L. Y. Ji, W. Y. Li, Y. Q. Bai, B. Chen, B. Xu, Z. L. Zhu, C. Yuan, H. P. Suen, L. Guo, N. Xu, W. J. Li, Y. Y. Zhao, J. Yang, C. Q. Yu, X. Wang, H. H. Fu, L. Yu, I. Dronova, F. M. Hui, X. Cheng, X. L. Shi, F. J. Xiao, Q. F. Liu, and L. C. Song https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2019.03.002

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We conducted a comprehensive investigation of Bienong Co, a moraine-dammed glacial lake on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP), to assess its potential hazards. The maximum lake depth is ~181 m, and the lake volume is ~102.3 × 106 m3. Bienong Co is the deepest known glacial lake with the same surface area on the Tibetan Plateau. Ice avalanches may produce glacial lake outburst floods that threaten the downstream area. This study could provide new insight into glacial lakes on the SETP.
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