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Regional Database System
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Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2011

Published date: 2011-01-03

Description

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.

Access & Use Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Suggested Citation

ICIMOD. (2011). Glacial Lakes of Nepal 2011 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.20831