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Inundation Modeling of a Potential Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Huaraz, Peru
University of Texas Digital Repository
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Inundation Modeling of a Potential Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Huaraz, Peru |
| Creator | Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo A. Chisolm, Rachel E. McKinney, Daene C. Rivas, Denny |
| Subject | Huaraz, Peru GLOF Inundation Modeling glacier recession Lake Palcacocha moraine overtopping wave generation ice avalanche |
| Description | One of the consequences of recent glacier recession is the formation and rapid growth of lakes formed at the snout of glaciers. One risk is that moraines damming these glacial lakes could fail releasing a huge volume of water and creating a glacial lake outburst flood. This happened December 13, 1941, at Lake Palcacocha, Peru, flooding the city of Huaraz and killed several thousand people. Recently Lake Palcacocha has been declared in a state of emergency state because its volume has again... |
| Publisher | Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin |
| Date | 2014-12-08T19:46:14Z 2014-12-08T19:46:14Z 2014-03 2014-12-08 |
| Type | Technical report |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/27738 |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | CRWR Online Report;no. 2014-1 |
