supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1505002);CGS Research Fund (JYYWF20181501);National Natural Science Foundation of China (41672359);Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (grant No. 2018PC0009)
Abnormal glacier movement is likely to result in canyon-type hazards chain,such as the barrier lake of Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon formed by glacier debris flow in October 2018 in China.Glacier hazard usually evolves ...
The relatively rapid recession of glaciers in the Himalayas and formation of moraine dammed glacial lakes(MDGLs) in the recent past have increased the risk of glacier lake outburst floods(GLOF) in the countries of Nep...
funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 609402-2020 researchers:Train to Move(T2M).
One fifth of the world's population is living in mountains or in their surrounding areas.This anthropogenic pressure continues to grow with the increasing number of settlements,especially in areas connected to tourist...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41201010);the Technology Project of the Ministry of Transport(Grant No.201231879210);the Directional Projectof IMHE (No.SDS-135-1202-02);Opening Fund of State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (Grant No.SKLGP2010K003);Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin,China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Grant NO.IWHR-SKL-201209)
With the global warming,the disasters of Glacier Lake Outburst Flood(GLOF) have taken place frequently in Tibet in recent years and attracted more and more attention.A systematic survey was conducted on the 19 GLOFs i...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40801033 and 41130529);DFG,German Research Foundation (Grant No.BR1895/21-1)
Fluctuation history of Midui glacier in the southeastern Tibet since the Little Ice Age(LIA) was reconstructed by the dating of lateral and terminal moraines using tree rings.Four conversions of glacier advance/stabil...
funded by National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB951003);Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and Desert Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The causes of the disappearance of the ancient town of Loulan in Xinjiang, China have been generally agreed to derive from two factors: human activities and natural factors (environmental variations). In this paper, t...