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Hazard assessment of glacial lake outburst floods from Kyagar glacier, Karakoram mountains, China

Haemmig, Christoph ; Huss, Matthias ; Keusen, Hansrudolf ; Hess, Josef ; Wegmüller, Urs ; Ao, Zhigang ; Kulubayi, Wubuli

In: Annals of Glaciology, 2014, vol. 55, no. 66, p. 34–44

Kyagar glacier is located in the Chinese Karakoram mountains. The glacier tongue entirely blocks the riverbed in the upper Shaksgam valley and impounds a glacial lake, which was the source of several violent and disastrous glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). A GLOF early warning system was implemented between 2011 and 2013. We present an integrative analysis of the hazard potential of Kyagar...