Tag: GLOF

Dangerous natural phenomena in Tajikistan

The nature, geology and climate of Tajikistan are the cause of such natural disasters as avalanches, mudflows and movement of glaciers and floods. These dangerous natural phenomena were studied mainly during the Soviet period, therefore, most hazard assessments are based

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Modelling outburst floods from moraine-dammed glacial lakes

In response to climatic change, the size and number of moraine-dammed supraglacial and proglacial lake systems have increased dramatically in recent decades. Given an appropriate trigger, the natural moraine dams that impound these proglacial lakes are breached, producing catastrophic Glacial

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