Published August 20, 2026 | Version v1

Future global glacial lake outburst risk will decline despite recent increases in societal impacts

Description

This dataset includes future glacier data, glacier bed overdeepening data, outburst volume and discharge peak data, simulated potential GLOFs and the assessment results derived from predicting future GLOF risks.
1.Future_Glacier_Data.7z contains the vector data of glaciers in the simulated scenarios of 2050 and 2100 in the SSP1-2.6, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5;
2.Glacier_Overdeepening.7z contains glacier overdeepenings obtained by applying a filling algorithm to the ice-free topography, followed by screening.
3.Historical_record.7z contains a table of outburst volume and peak discharge data, as well as a table of documented damaging GLOF events.
4.Simulated_potential_GLOF.7z contains vector data representing GLOF inundation areas for glacial lakes in 2020 and potential GLOF inundation areas aggregated by year and SSP scenario;
5.Risk_Merge.xlsx contains the risk classification results for each scenario and each catchment.

2.This repository contains the source code for assessing the risk of global glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), including simulating future glaciers using the OGGM model, evaluating the likelihood of GLOFs using machine learning models, and simulating future GLOF floods using the r.randomwalk model.

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