And here a study of some gigantic glacier lake outburst floods detected from satellite imagery.

https://youtu.be/xDH5GWWTsV0

#GLOF

Earlier, higher, smaller: #ClimateChange alters glacial lake outburst floods (#GLOF)

Accelerated #GlacialMelt in recent decades has resulted in the most extreme glacial lake outbursts becoming smaller in terms of volume and peak discharge. However, in the high mountains of #Asia floods now occur about eleven weeks earlier in the year than in 1900, in the European #Alps ten weeks earlier and in northwestern North #America seven weeks earlier.

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/earlier-higher-smaller-climate-change-alters-glacial-lake-outburst-floods

#ClimateCrisis #Glacier

Gletschersee-Sturzfluten bedrohen Millionen Menschen weltweit

Durch den #Klimawandel ziehen sich die #Gletscher der Welt zurück. Gletscherseen, die in vielen Fällen jedoch nur von instabilen natürlichen Barrieren aus Eis oder Steinen zurückgehalten werden, entstehen. Bricht eine solche Barriere kommt es zu einer Sturzflut (Glacial Lake Outburst Flood #GLOF).
https://www.wissenschaft.de/erde-umwelt/gletschersee-sturzfluten-bedrohen-millionen-menschen-weltweit/

#Kryosphere

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The massive Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (#GLOF) in Hunza from #Shishpar glacier was mainly triggered due to abrupt temperature rise in the Northern Areas due to the prevailing #heatwave phenomenon.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/930963/glacial-lake-formed-over-shisper-glacier-bursts-prior-to-normal-duration/

High flood in #Shishper #Glacier badly damages bridge on #Karakorum Highway

The heavy flow of water and high flood in Shishper Glacier has severely damaged RCC Bridge on Karakorum Highway at #Hassanabad area in HunzaValley on Saturday.
“The PPP cannot leave people of #GilgitBaltistan alone in the hour of difficulty. The fast melting of glaciers is a matter of concern. We can no more hide our heads like ostrich on the environmental changes,” he said

https://www.bolnews.com/pakistan/2022/05/high-flood-in-shishper-glacier-badly-damages-bridge-on-karakorum-highway/

#GLOF #Pakistan

#Gletscherbruch in Nord-#Indien

Im Norden Indiens werden nach einer #Sturzflut mindestens 150 Menschen vermisst. Ein riesiger #Gletscher war zuvor von einem Berg abgebrochen und in einen Fluss gefallen. Der Unfall ereignete sich nach Angaben von SN Pradhan, dem Vorsitzenden des indischen Katastrophenschutzes, am Sonntag in der Gegend um #Joshimath im nordindischen Bundesstaat #Uttarakhand.

https://orf.at/stories/3200533/

#Klimakrise #GLOF #Himalaja

Hazards in the #Himalayas

Recent #warming has caused #glacier #retreat in high-mountain #Asia, with a corresponding increase in the size and number of #glacial #lakes dammed by glaciers or their debris. A glacial lake outburst flood (#GLOF) occurs when these dams fail — for example, from melting, avalanches or upstream GLOFs. These events can have major downstream #flooding impacts, and it is important to identify lakes at highest risk.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0778-0