A global assessment of the societal impacts of glacier outburst floods

• Published in: Global and planetary change Vol. 144; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Authors: Carrivick, Jonathan L., Tweed, Fiona S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2016
• Subjects: agricultural land; Alps region; Bhutan; Central Asia; climate; climate change; Death; Flood damage; Floods; Freshwater; Glacier lake; Glaciers; GLOF; Hazard; humans; Iceland; India; Infrastructure; Jökulhlaup; lakes; Land use; land use change; monitoring; Nepal; Outbursts; Peru; probability distribution; Proglacial; Risk; roads; society; Bhutan; Asia; ANE, Atlantic, Iceland; ISE, Peru; Nepal; India; Alps region; Central Asia; Peru; Iceland; Proglacial; Jökulhlaup; Glacier lake; Risk; GLOF; Hazard

Glacier outburst floods are sudden releases of large amounts of water from a glacier. They are a pervasive natural hazard worldwide. They have an association with climate primarily via glacier mass balance and their impacts on society partly depend on population pressure and land use. Given the ongo...