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

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2025-07-17T13:52:24
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 2001
Date	2001-01-08
Date Type	publication
Abstract	This is the first inventory of glacial lakes of Nepal Himalaya. The data is prepared using topographic maps, aerial photographs and satellite images.
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
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type	vector
Equivalent Scale	50000

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. Samjwal R. Bajracharaya	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

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

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. (2001). Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2001 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.20964
Use Limitation	Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD. Citation: Mool, PK; Bajracharya, SR; Joshi, SP (2001a) Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes, and glacial lake outburst floods: Monitoring and early warning systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region – Nepal. Kathmandu: ICIMOD (http://lib.icimod.org/record/7511).
Use Limitation	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Access Constraints	license
Use Constraints	license

Reference System Information
Code	Lambert conformal conic

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

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