Sentences with phrase «lake outburst»

According to Pant, a glacial lake outburst flood takes about five minutes to travel from the Nepal - China Friendship Bridge to the plant.

In 1981, a glacial lake outburst flood in the river basin washed away several bridges, including the China - Nepal Friendship Bridge along the Araniko Highway, said Pradeep K. Mool, a glaciologist at ICIMOD in Kathmandu.

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(Wikipedia reckons that a glacial lake outburst flood created the English Channel in days of yore, so they are not events to considered lightly.)

In his address to the gathering, Pakistan Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan said that people in Pakistan living in around the HKH region are annually affected by a number of climate hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFS), avalanches, landslides and heat waves, which result in massive human and material losses.

After objections by the Indian representative, the Green Climate Fund has kept on hold a project to reduce the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in northern Pakistan

A glacial lake outburst in 2009 killed farm animals, destroyed crops and washed away a road, leaving villagers isolated for months.

The situation has exacerbated the occurrence of Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs).

Yet current hydroelectric power and infrastructure design in Nepal largely fails to take into account the risk of glacial lake outburst flooding in relation to Nepal's some 2,000 glacial lakes.

A serious challenge is that the suggested location for the Samzong fields is at risk of flash flooding due to Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs).

Speaking at an interaction programme on Glacial Lake Outburst Flood here, Minister Rijal underlined the increasing threat posed by Climate Change on the Himalayas and the natural heritage reflecting Nepal's unique identity.

Similarly, glacial melt, glacial lake outburst floods and drought in the Himalayan rivers can affect more than one country.

After objections by the Indian representative, the Green Climate Fund has kept on hold a project to reduce the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in northern Pakistan

But Mauro Werder, a Simon Fraser University researcher who has investigated glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in Switzerland, and was not directly involved with the study, lauded the research as an «important step» forward.

The team hope the study raises awareness about the rapid glacier loss in Bolivia, how it could change in the future, and how it could affect water supply and cause glacial lake outburst floods.

The researchers who analyzed and remixed Gornergletscher's vibrating signals say their findings could help forecast such glacial lake outburst floods.

Dirk Hoffmann, a researcher at the Bolivian Mountain Institute and co-author in The Cryosphere study, recently documented a glacial lake outburst flood in the Apolobamba region that happened in 2009 and killed farm animals, destroyed cultivated fields and washed away a road that left a village isolated for months.

Avalanches, rockfalls or earthquakes can breach these dams, or cause water to overflow them, resulting in catastrophic floods known as glacial lake outburst floods.

In a warming world, the threat of such «glacial lake outburst floods» is becoming increasingly urgent.

In addition to the glacial lake, the area is also prone to earthquakes, which could trigger a glacial lake outburst.

His latest project — the High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program — blends the best of modern technology with on - the - ground observation to mitigate the coming challenges associated with glacial lake outbursts.

And yes, there is such evidence — in the predicted response to volcanic forcing, the ozone hole, orbital variations, the sun, paleo - lake outbursts, the response to ENSO etc. that all show models matching the observations skillfully (which is not to say they match perfectly).

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

The most immediate and catastrophic threat to Nepal are so called «glacial lake outbursts,» a phenomenon where swelling glacial lakes reach a critical volume and rupture their natural confines.

Not exact matches

State Sen. Tom O'Mara apologized for his taped outburst at a man who repeatedly questioned the lawmaker's support for the proposed liquefied petroleum gas storage facility near Seneca Lake, which has drawn the ire of environmental groups.

A «gold rush» to extract valuable methane from the lake's depths might trigger an outburst of gas that could wash a deadly, suffocating blanket over the 2 million people who live around Kivu's shores.

After studying glacier change, the researchers used their 2014 glacial - lake observations to identify the lakes where outburst floods could occur and present a hazard to populations.

There's nothing particularly fun about this group, not when it's just matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep) screaming at patriarch Beverly (Sam Shepard), suggesting in her R - rated outburst - y way that he should fornicate with a pig and certainly not when the whole gang gets together later in the movie after Beverly decides that he'd rather jump in a lake than take Vi's advice.

Tropical flora and fauna abound about the Arenal lodge, while the majestic volcano and its fiery outbursts reflect off the mirror lake at her feet — all this right outside your Arenal hotel room at the Observatory Lodge.

Excuse my outburst, but I can't quite express how much I'm looking forward to seeing the deepest and (one of the) clearest lake of the USA.

A likely cause for the 8.2 ka event is an outburst flood during which pro-glacial Lake Agassiz drained about 1014 m3 of freshwater into Hudson Bay extremely rapidly (possibly 5 Sv over 0.5 year; Clarke et al., 2004).