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Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-4045-2026
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Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
Brief communication
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26 Aug 2026
Brief communication |  | 26 Aug 2026

Brief communication: Towards defining the worst-case breach scenarios and potential flood volumes for moraine-dammed lake outbursts

Adam Emmer, Ashim Sattar, and Jan Hrebrina

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Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are major concern in high mountain regions across the globe and effective disaster risk management requires predictive modelling which needs various input data including potential flood volume. Building on the analysis of breached channels of largest documented GLOFs originating from moraine dam failures, we present new methodology that estimates maximum breach depth and so potential flood volumes of moraine-dammed lake outbursts.
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