Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal

Kropáček, J.; Neckel, N.; Tyrna, B.; Holzer, N.; Hovden, A.; Gourmelen, N.; Schneider, C.; Buchroithner, M.; Hochschild, V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2425-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2425-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2425-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Research article

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26 Oct 2015

Research article |

| 26 Oct 2015

Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal

J. Kropáček, N. Neckel, B. Tyrna, N. Holzer, A. Hovden, N. Gourmelen, C. Schneider, M. Buchroithner, and V. Hochschild

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Oct 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Nov 2014)

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RC C2887: 'Review of "Periodic Glacial Lake Outburst Floods threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-west Nepal"', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Jan 2015
- AC C3734: 'Response to the Referee 1', Jan Kropacek, 08 May 2015
RC C2954: 'review to the manuscript nhess-2014-275', Adam Emmer, 05 Jan 2015
- AC C3727: 'Response to the Referee 2', Jan Kropacek, 08 May 2015
RC C3165: 'a worthwhile study', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Jan 2015
- AC C3724: 'response to the Referee 3', Jan Kropacek, 08 May 2015

Short summary

The supraglacial lake basin was mapped by DGPS and the SFM approach from terrestrial photographs. The maximum filling capacity of the lake was estimated, with a maximum discharge of 77.8 m3/s, calculated using an empirical relation. The flooded area in the valley was delineated by employing a raster-based hydraulic model. A coincidence of the GLOF events with high values of cumulative above-zero temperature and precipitation calculated from the HAR data set was revealed.