Title
Mapping hazards from glacier lake outburst floods based on modelling of process cascades at Lake 513, Carhuaz, Peru
Date Issued
06 January 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Schneider D.
Huggel C.
Guillén S.
García J.
Publisher(s)
European Geosciences Union
Abstract
Recent warming has had enormous impacts on glaciers and high-mountain environments. Hazards have changed or new ones have emerged, including those from glacier lakes that form as glaciers retreat. The Andes of Peru have repeatedly been severely impacted by glacier lake outburst floods in the past. An important recent event occurred in the Cordillera Blanca in 2010 when an ice avalanche impacted a glacier lake and triggered an outburst flood that affected the downstream communities and city of Carhuaz. In this study we evaluate how such complex cascades of mass movement processes can be simulated coupling different physically-based numerical models. We furthermore develop an approach that allows us to elaborate corresponding hazard maps according to existing guidelines for debris flows and based on modelling results and field work.
Start page
145
End page
155
Volume
35
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geociencias, Multidisciplinar
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84892967483
Source
Advances in Geosciences
ISSN of the container
1680-7340
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