Moraine-dammed glacial lake changes during the recent 40 years in the Poiqu River Basin, Himalayas.pdfVIP

■ ScienVcoeulsmenih7ttCp，Ios：suwldwe／／w6aD，ns．ceadcFeAma．cbrc．enrid,2ROe15goins● Citation：Zhang刈，LiuS LiuL，2015．Moraine-dammedglaciallakechangesduringtherecent40yearsinthePoiquRiverBasin，Himalayas SciencesinColdandAridRegions，7(6)：0654-0665．DOI：10．3724／SPA．1226．2015．00654． M oraine--dammedglaciallakechangesduringtherecent 40yearsinthePoiquRiverBasin，Himalayas XiuJuanZhangl， ShiYinLiu lLiLiu1 ， ， lColdandAridRegionsEnvironmentalandEngineeringResearchInstitute．ChineseAcademyofSciencesLanzhou Gansu730000,China 2．UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences，Bejiing100049,China 木Correspondenceto：XiuJuanZhang，Ph．D．studentofColdandAridRegionsEnvironmentalandEngineeringResearch Institute，ChineseAcademy ofSciences．No．320，W estDonggangRoad，Lanzhou，Gansu 730000，China．E-mail： zhangxi~uan@lzb．ac．cn Received：July26，2015 Accepted：September25，2015 ABSTRACT Glacierretreatisnotonly asymboloftemperatureandprecipitationchange，butadominatingfactorofglaciallake changesinalpineregions，whichareofwideconcernforhighriskofpotentialoutburstfloods．Ofalltypesofglaciallakes， moraine—dammedlakesmaybethemostdangeroustolocalresidentsinmountainregions．Thus．wemonitoredthedy— namicsof12moraine．dammedglaciallakesfrom 1974to2014inthePoiquRiverBasinofcentralwestHimalayas．aswell astheirassociatedglacierswithacombinationofremotesensing，topographicmapsanddigitalelevationmodels(DEMs)． Ourresultsindicatethatallmonitoredmoraine．dammedglacia11akeshaveexpandedby7．46km intotalwhiletheglaciers retreatedbyatotalof15．29km correspondingly．Meteorologicalanalysisindicatesawarminganddryingtrendinthe Nyalam regionfrom 1974to2014．whichacceleratedglacierretreatandthenaugmentedthesupplyofmoraine—dammed glaciallake