Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya
Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya, Published online: 18 March 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0437-5
Melting glaciers are increasing Himalayan glacial lakes and potentially the risk of outburst floods. An advanced automated algorithm identifies glacial lake outburst floods from Landsat images since the late 1980s to improve understanding of these events and trends in their frequency.
