Supplementary data to: Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation
- 1. State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2. Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva
- 3. Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich
- 4. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Description
This archive contains data and results produced in a study assessing glacial lakes and related outburst flood hazard and risk on Earth's Third Pole (linked to a journal article: Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation, published in Nature Climate Change in 2021).
Archive contents
The archive contents are origanised into four parts, each stored as a .zip compressed file.
1. Glacial lake data sets
Glacial lake data sets mapped for 1990 and 2015, and modelled for the future scenarios (2050 and 2100 under RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5; and an ice-free scenario) on the Third Pole.
This directory includes:
glacial_lakes_1990_v1.shp
glacial_lakes_2015_v1.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2050_rcp26.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2050_rcp45.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2050_rcp85.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2100_rcp26.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2100_rcp45.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_2100_rcp85.shp
projected_glacial_lakes_ice-free.shp
metadata.xlsx
2. Hazard and risk assessments
GLOF hazard and risk assessment results for present (2015) and modelled potential glacial lakes (2050 and 2100 under RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5; and an ice-free scenario) on the Third Pole.
This directory includes:
present_hazard_and_risk_2015.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2050_rcp26.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2050_rcp45.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2050_rcp85.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2100_rcp26.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2100_rcp45.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_2100_rcp85.shp
projected_hazard_and_risk_ice-free.shp
metadata.xlsx
3. Transboundary threats
Potentially dangerous glacial lakes with transboundary GLOF threats for present (2015) and modelled potential glacial lakes (ice-free scenario) on the Third Pole.
This directory includes:
present_potential_transboundary_glacial_lakes_2015.shp
projected_potential_transboundary_glacial_lakes_ice-free.shp
cross_border_points_present.shp
cross_border_points_projected.shp
metadata.xlsx
4. Aggregated results
Region or hydrobasin/interior zone aggregated results for present and modelled potential glacial lakes and related hazard and risk assessments on the Third Pole.
This directory includes:
region_aggregated.shp
basin_aggregated.shp
metadata.xlsx