{"id":1793,"date":"2020-09-04T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:21:56","slug":"rapid-worldwide-growth-in-glacial-lakes-and-risk-of-outburst-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/rapid-worldwide-growth-in-glacial-lakes-and-risk-of-outburst-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Worldwide Growth in Glacial Lakes and Risk of Outburst Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Nature Climate Change, August 31<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div>The global volume of glacier lakes increased 48% between 1990 and 2018, to 156.5 km<sup>3<\/sup>, a volume that would cover the country of Liechtenstein by a lake 1 km deep. Glacial lakes are bodies of water fed by a glacier\u2019s meltwater, and subject to sudden outburst events that unexpectedly can flood downstream populations.\u00a0 This global inventory of glacial lakes reveals the impact of increased meltwater lost by glaciers, and indicates heightened risk of exposure for populations and sensitive infrastructure in mountain regions.\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-020-0855-4\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-020-0855-4<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Compiled by Amy Imdieke.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Climate Change, August 31 The global volume of glacier lakes increased 48% between 1990 and 2018, to 156.5 km3, a volume that would cover the country of Liechtenstein by a lake 1 km deep. Glacial lakes are bodies of water fed by a glacier\u2019s meltwater, and subject to sudden outburst events that unexpectedly can [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[106,108,107,109],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules","category-latest-research","tag-glacial-lakes","tag-glofs","tag-mountains","tag-outburst-floods"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}