Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 3

Glacio-Hydrological Aspects of Climate Change in the Himalayas: Mitigation of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Nepal

  • Author:
  • Suresh Raj Chalise, Madan Lall Shrestha, Kamal Prakash Budhathoki, Mandira Singh Shrestha

(Proceedings of Symposium S6 held during the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, April 2005. IAHS Publication 295, 2005, pp. 309–316).

Keywords

Bhutan, Climate change, Extreme events, Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF), Glacier retreat, Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Hydropower, Nepal, Transboundary floods