Journal
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Volume 36, Issue 7, Pages 2343-2358Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-022-03146-9
Keywords
GLOF; Geomorphology surveys; Grey correlation model; FLO-2D modelling; Hazard assessment; Disaster simulation
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- Everest Scientific Research Project of Chengdu University of Technology [80000-2020ZF11410]
- Open Foundation of the Research Center for Human Geography of Tibetan Plateau and Its Eastern Slope (Chengdu University of Technology) [RWDL2021-ZD003]
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This study constructed a systematic GLOF hazard management process chain for moraine-dammed lakes by integrating various methods. The findings showed that two moraine-dammed lakes in southwestern Tibet were continuing to expand and at risk of GLOF. Modeling and simulation provided important data and results related to GLOF.
Southwestern Tibet is one of the areas seriously affected by glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). In this study, a systematic GLOF hazard management process chain for moraine-dammed lakes was constructed by integrating remote sensing (RS), geomorphology investigations, geographic information systems (GIS), statistical methods, and hydrological models. The evolution of two moraine-dammed lakes and their mother glaciers across the region from 1976 to 2018 were investigated and the susceptibility of 74 moraine-dammed lakes outburst was evaluated. The actual and potential GLOF risks of former Cirenmaco Lake GLOF was modeled based on a single hydrological model. The monitoring results showed that two moraine-dammed lakes in southwestern Tibet, including Yanongco and Rongxiazangbu, were continuing to expand and were at risk of GLOF. The parameters used for assessing GLOF risk were filtered through a grey correlation model with a modeling accuracy of 84%. The FLO-2D hydrological model was adopted to simulate GLOF hazards of a moraine-dammed lake in Southwest Tibet for the first time. Results showed that the modeled errors of fluid depth and velocity were within 10%. The combined method proposed in this study could be potentially used to assess the status of the regional GLOF in Tibet and provides effective suggestions for local governments to prevent disasters and reduce damages of GLOF.
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