Glacier Lake Outburst Flood Database V2.0
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    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tree rings; reports from local authorities; news outlets; workshop proceedings; social media accounts; and unpublished work.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)
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    Project Coordination:

    Georg Veh 1
    Natalie Lützow 1
    Correspondence to: georg.veh@uni-potsdam.de

    Project Members:

    Varvara Kharlamova 2
    Dmitry 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.


    Help us to keep our open database updated!

    Please contact: georg.veh@uni-potsdam.de & natalie.luetzow@uni-potsdam.de
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