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The Petrov Lake dynamic evolution with regard to risk of moraine dam rupture

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2009

Abstract

Recent global climatic changes result in an intensive melting and retreat of glaciers in the majority of high mountains all over the world. Melting water of glaciers influences runoff regime changes of water streams and causes the overfilling and outburst of lakes.

One of the most dangerous localities (Petrov Lake) is situated in Ak-Sijrak massive, Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Risk analyses from the hydrology, glaciology, geomorphology and geophysics point of view were carried out here.