Limits and challenges to compiling and developing a database of glacial lake outburst floods

Emmer, Adam; Vilímek, Vít; Huggel, Christian; Klimeš, Jan; Schaub, Yvonne

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“…While the amount of research on GLOFs has gradually increased over the past few decades (see Emmer et al, 2016), detailed insight into the GLOF research community, its global bibliometrics and geographies of research is missing. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to map GLOF research and the research community by analysing GLOF research items published in the WOS Core Collection database from the point of view of (i) general bibliometric and scientometric characteristics (temporal analysis, journals, document types, citations and references) and (ii) geographies (where GLOFs are studied and by whom in relation to where the GLOFs occur).…”

Section: A Emmer: Glofs In the Wosmentioning

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“…Based on the previous GLOF inventories and overviews (Carrivick and Tweed, 2016;Emmer et al, 2016), 11 non-overlapping hotspots of GLOF occurrence are distinguished around the globe (see Table 2; Fig. 2), of which three are located in Asia (HKH, CAS, KRK), in Europe (ALP, ICL, SCA) and North America (ALA, GRL, NAC) each, and two are located in South America (CAN, PAN).…”

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“…A few items are also classified as letters, editorial materials or notes. Considering the different lake types that may be the source of GLOFs (moraine-dammed, bedrockdammed, ice-dammed), it is shown that studies focusing on GLOFs originating in ice-dammed lakes (n = 451, 58.8 %) dominate over studies focusing on GLOFs originating in moraine-dammed lakes (n = 195; 21.9 %), roughly corresponding to the share of these lake types over the total number of GLOFs (see Carrivick and Tweed, 2016;Emmer et al, 2016).…”

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GLOFs in the WOS: bibliometrics, geographies and global trends of research on glacial lake outburst floods (Web of Science, 1979–2016)

Emmer

2018

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Research on glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) -specific low-frequency, high-magnitude floods originating in glacial lakes, including jökulhlaups -is well justified in the context of glacier ice loss and glacial lake evolution in glacierized areas all over the world. Increasing GLOF research activities, which are documented by the increasing number of published research items, have been observed in the past few decades; however, comprehensive insight into the GLOF research community, its global bibliometrics, geographies and trends in research is missing. To fill this gap, a set of 892 GLOF research items published in the Web of Science database covering the period 1979-2016 was analysed. General bibliometric characteristics, citations and references were analysed, revealing a certain change in the publishing paradigm over time. Furthermore, the global geographies of research on GLOFs were studied, focusing on (i) where GLOFs are studied, (ii) who studies GLOFs, (iii) the export of research on GLOFs and (iv) international collaboration. The observed trends and links to the challenges ahead are discussed and placed in a broader context.

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Section: A Emmer: Glofs In the Wosmentioning

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GLOFs in the WOS: bibliometrics, geographies and global trends of research on glacial lake outburst floods (Web of Science, 1979–2016)

Emmer

2018

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“…Research on the world-wide patterns of GLOF occurrences and characteristics is further supported by maintaining and improving the GLOF world wide database within the scope of the IPL project entitled "Database of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs)-project No. 179" (Emmer et al 2016).…”

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“…This village has been endangered since 2009 by an active landslide with a high potential for damage. The project follows previously conducted research (Vilímek et al 2016;Klimeš and Vilí-mek 2011) and was conducted by Peruvian research institute INAIGEM (Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de las Montaña), with the collaboration of Czech researchers. The one-year project involved a series of meetings with local authorities and inhabitants during all of its stages.…”

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Landslide Hazard and Risk Management (WCoE 2014–2017)

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Vilímek

Klimeš

et al. 2017

Advancing Culture of Living With Landslides

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The World Centre of Excellence (WCoE) on Landslide Risk Reduction entitled "Landslide risk assessment and development guidelines for effective risk reduction" (2014-2017) was designed to contribute to the risk reduction effort formulated in the Sendai Partnership initiative. Several research activities were developed and their results were presented to a broad public through a series of articles, informative web pages and documentary movies. The research focused on improving landslide hazard assessment in a variety of natural environments, including deep-seated as well as shallow landslides. Landslide hazard assessment was applied practically through development projects in Ethiopia and Peru. Within the scope of the WCoE we proposed and conducted two projects of the International Program on Landslides (IPL). One of them is dedicated to compilation and analysis of glacial lake outburst floods (Database of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs)-project No. 179) at the global level. This potentially highly damaging natural phenomenon combines characteristics offloods and debris flows and often also involves landslides in the initiation process. The other IPL project focuses on the main challenges of landslide risk reduction in the Czech Republic (Challenges for landslide hazard and risk management in "low risk" regions, Czech Republic, IPL project No. 197), which is a country with abundant landslide-related knowledge and rather low annual occurrence frequencies. Despite that, landslides cause considerable damage and financial losses, which often could be prevented if the available hazard information were to be used.

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Experimental Study on the Formation and Propagation of Debris Flows Triggered by Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

Chen

Cui

Chen

et al. 2020

Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

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Limits and challenges to compiling and developing a database of glacial lake outburst floods

Cited by 34 publications

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GLOFs in the WOS: bibliometrics, geographies and global trends of research on glacial lake outburst floods (Web of Science, 1979–2016)

GLOFs in the WOS: bibliometrics, geographies and global trends of research on glacial lake outburst floods (Web of Science, 1979–2016)

Landslide Hazard and Risk Management (WCoE 2014–2017)

Experimental Study on the Formation and Propagation of Debris Flows Triggered by Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

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