Metadata Catalogue
Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2011
This is the inventory of glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya. The inventory is prepared using Landsat satellite images of 2005/2006 and gives the distribution of glacial lakes at the sub-basin level. It also contains information about three potentially dangerous lakes based on their field investigation, along with the prioritization of critical lakes.
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2011-01-03
- Purpose
- The purpose of this inventory is to update the glacial lakes mapping of Nepal Himalaya and GLOF records with remote sensing based data and to standardize the method for prioritizing the critical glacial lakes.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- ( Theme )
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- Glacial Lakes
- Flood
- Glacier
- Himalaya
- Keywords ( Place )
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- HKH
- Maha Kali
- Gandaki
- Nepal
- Koshi
- Karnali
- Hindu Kush Himalaya
- Use limitation
- Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2011). Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2011 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.20831
- Use limitation
- Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD. Citation: ICIMOD (2011) Glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal. Kathmandu: ICIMOD.
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 30 m
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- The accuracy of the Digital Data prepared depends on the base source Data and Maps. No assessment or ground truthing has been carried out on this data. ICIMOD accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracy, errors, or omissions in this data.
- File identifier
- 19304eac-3615-40c0-be9f-cc610e9b1138 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-09-08T14:35:26
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
