Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1187-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1187-2025
Research article
 | 
26 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2025

Recent large-inland-lake outbursts on the Tibetan Plateau: processes, causes, and mechanisms

Fenglin Xu, Yong Liu, Guoqing Zhang, Ping Zhao, R. Iestyn Woolway, Yani Zhu, Jianting Ju, Tao Zhou, Xue Wang, and Wenfeng Chen

Related authors

Towards ice-thickness inversion: an evaluation of global digital elevation models (DEMs) in the glacierized Tibetan Plateau
Wenfeng Chen, Tandong Yao, Guoqing Zhang, Fei Li, Guoxiong Zheng, Yushan Zhou, and Fenglin Xu
The Cryosphere, 16, 197–218, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-197-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-197-2022, 2022
Short summary
100 years of lake evolution over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Guoqing Zhang, Youhua Ran, Wei Wan, Wei Luo, Wenfeng Chen, Fenglin Xu, and Xin Li
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 3951–3966, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3951-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3951-2021, 2021
Short summary

Related subject area

Hydrological Hazards
Modelling urban stormwater drainage overflows for assessing flood hazards: application to the urban area of Dakar (Senegal)
Laurent Pascal Malang Diémé, Christophe Bouvier, Ansoumana Bodian, and Alpha Sidibé
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1095–1112, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1095-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1095-2025, 2025
Short summary
Dynamics and impacts of monsoon-induced geological hazards: a 2022 flood study along the Swat River in Pakistan
Nazir Ahmed Bazai, Mehtab Alam, Peng Cui, Wang Hao, Adil Poshad Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Yao Shunyu, Muhammad Ramzan, Li Wanhong, and Tashfain Ahmed
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1071–1093, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1071-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1071-2025, 2025
Short summary
Monte Carlo-based sensitivity analysis of the RIM2D hydrodynamic model for the 2021 flood event in western Germany
Shahin Khosh Bin Ghomash, Patricio Yeste, Heiko Apel, and Viet Dung Nguyen
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 975–990, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-975-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-975-2025, 2025
Short summary
Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities
Sarra Kchouk, Louise Cavalcante, Lieke A. Melsen, David W. Walker, Germano Ribeiro Neto, Rubens Gondim, Wouter J. Smolenaars, and Pieter R. van Oel
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 893–912, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-893-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-893-2025, 2025
Short summary
Post-wildfire sediment source and transport modeling, empirical observations, and applied mitigation: an Arizona, USA, case study
Edward R. Schenk, Alex Wood, Allen Haden, Gabriel Baca, Jake Fleishman, and Joe Loverich
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 727–745, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-727-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-727-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Chen, W., Yao, T., Zhang, G., Li, S., and Zheng, G.: Accelerated glacier mass loss in the largest river and lake source regions of the Tibetan Plateau and its links with local water balance over 1976–2017, J. Glaciol., 67, 577–591, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.9, 2021. 
Chen, W., Liu, Y., Zhang, G., Yang, K., Zhou, T., Wang, J., and Shum, C. K.: What Controls Lake Contraction and Then Expansion in Tibetan Plateau's Endorheic Basin Over the Past Half Century?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL101200, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl101200, 2022. 
Chen, Y., Lu, S., Zhou, J., Baig, M. H. A., Chen, F., Tang, H., Zhang, Y., Yang, X., and Ge, L.: Hydrological ecosystem changes and impacts after the Zonag Lake outburst in Hoh Xil of Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 6, 100064, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2021.100064, 2021. 
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem Browser: Sentinel-2 images and Sentinel-3 SRAL altimetry data, https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu, last access: 14 March 2025. 
Crétaux, J. F., Abarca-del-Río, R., Bergé-Nguyen, M., Arsen, A., Drolon, V., Clos, G., and Maisongrande, P.: Lake Volume Monitoring from Space, Surv. Geophys., 37, 269–305, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-016-9362-6, 2016. 
Download
Short summary
Glacial lake outbursts have been widely studied, but large-inland-lake outbursts have received...
Share
Altmetrics
Preprint