Schema	iso19139
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.
Descriptive Keyword	Glacial Lakes, Flood, Glacier, Himalaya (theme) HKH, Maha Kali, Gandaki, Nepal, Koshi, Karnali, Hindu Kush Himalaya (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2020-09-08T14:35:26
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Sharad P. Joshi	Email	sharad.joshi@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name	Associate Glaciologist	Address
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2011
Date	2011-01-03
Date Type	publication
Abstract	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.
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
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type	vector
Spatial Resolution	30

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Mr. Pradeep K. Mool	Email	metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Remote Sensing Specialist	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Sharad P. Joshi	Email	sharad.joshi@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Associate Glaciologist	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Pravin R. Maskey	Email
Organization Name		Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Achyuta Koirala	Email
Organization Name		Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Wu Lizong	Email	wulizong@lzb.ac.cn
Organization Name	CAREERI	Voice
Position name		Address	China
Role	author

Name	Dr. Arun B. Shrestha	Email	arun.shrestha@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Regional Programme Manager River Basin	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Mats Eriksson	Email
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name		Address
Role	author

Name	Mr. Binod Gurung	Email
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Bijaya Pokharel	Email
Organization Name	DHM	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Narendra Khanal	Email
Organization Name	TU	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Suman Panthi	Email
Organization Name	TU	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Tirtha Adhikari	Email
Organization Name	TU	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Rijan B. Kayastha	Email
Organization Name	KU	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Pawan Ghimire	Email
Organization Name	GIS & IDC	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Rajesh Thapa	Email
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Basanta Shrestha	Email
Organization Name	NEA	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Sanjeev Shrestha	Email
Organization Name	NEA	Voice
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Rajendra B. Shrestha	Email	rajendra.shrestha@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name		Address	Nepal
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	88.0556	Geographic Extent West	80.1742
Geographic Extent North	30.4073	Geographic Extent South	26.3389

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
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
Use Constraints

Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5275222	Position name
Address		Role	distributor