Our global glacial lake outburst flood database encompasses data from more than 700 different sources including analyses of stream gages; satellite and aerial images; stratigraphy; tree rings; reports from local authorities; news outlets; workshop proceedings; social media accounts; and unpublished work. We also extracted, if possible, summary statistics of lake volume; flood volume; and peak discharge; and also how these diagnostics had been estimated.
All data are available for download at View & Download Data.
For detailed insights have a look at:
Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., Korup, O.: Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods. Earth's Future (accepted)
Project Members:
Varvara Kharlamova 2Dmitry Petrakov 2
Romain Hugonnet 3,4
Oliver Korup 1,5
1 Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
2 Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
3 Université de Toulouse, CNRS, LEGOS, Toulouse, France.
4 Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
5 Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.