799aab42-e816-4e7d-87bb-8b2147eb6a1a eng Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ICIMOD RS Analyst - Cryosphere Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org 2026-01-22T16:25:08 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 WGS 1984 Potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and India 2020-09-10 Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ICIMOD RS Analyst - Cryosphere 977-1-5275222 Nepal Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org ICIMOD. (2020). Potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and India [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1971950 The potentially dangerous glacial lakes were identified on the basis of the glacial lake inventory dataset using Landsat imagery from 2015. The following criteria were used for classifying the lakes: i) lake characteristics, ii) dam characteristics, iii) source/associate glacier characteristics, and iv) physical conditions of surroundings. Various parameters required for classifying such lakes were generated by using 5 m ALOS DEM for Nepal and 12.5 m ALOS DEM for China and India. Data include detailed analyses of land features and conditions using high-resolution images with 3D visualization on Google Earth. The dataset provides the size, type, and altitudinal distribution of such lakes, including the hazard rank of each lake. This dataset was prepared to support the Green Climate Fund project proposal formulated by UNDP Nepal. This dataset is useful for researchers, scientists, and infrastructure developers and policy makers for glacial water resource management, climate change impact studies, and glacial hazard risk reduction and mitigation. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/api/records/799aab42-e816-4e7d-87bb-8b2147eb6a1a/attachments/PDGL_location.jpg http://rds.icimod.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/api/records/799aab42-e816-4e7d-87bb-8b2147eb6a1a/attachments/PDGL_location.jpg Potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and India Glacial Lake Potential dangerous glacial lakes GLOF Cryosphere Nepal China India Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) eng geoscientificInformation 80.3847 88.2922 27.6854 30.4473 2015-09-01 2016-12-12 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org https://lib.icimod.org/record/34905 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link HimalDoc