Date ( Publication )

2001-01-08

Purpose

The Himalayan glaciers are natural fresh water reserves. However, these glaciers are retreating resulting, in the long-run, the loss of natural fresh water storage. During the glacier retreat, glacial lakes may also be formed behind the exposed and unstable terminal moraines. There is still no detailed inventory and records of glaciers, glacial lakes, GLOF events and potential GLOF sites in the region. This inventory is designed to start filling this information gap.

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

( Theme )

• Flood
• Glacier
• Himalaya

Keywords ( Place )

• HKH
• Lunana
• Bhutan
• Hindu Kush Himalaya

Use limitation

Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD. Citation:Mool, PK; Wangda, D; Bajracharya, SR; Kunzang, K; Gurung, DR; Joshi, SP (2001b) Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes, and glacial lake outburst floods: Monitoring and early warning systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region – Bhutan. Kathmandu: ICIMOD (http://lib.icimod.org/record/21962).

Access constraints

Copyright

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier

Polyconic

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

e4300d38-f4d6-4bc6-87ee-44f20c8f4b36 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2020-09-08T14:43:20

Metadata standard name

North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003