Manifestations and mechanisms of mountain glacier-related hazards

• 作者: Xin Wang Qiao Liu ShiYin Liu GuangLi He
• 来源期刊: 寒旱区科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: Articles
• 页码范围: 436-446
• 页数: 11页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Mountain glacier-related hazards occur worldwide in response to increasing glacier instability and human activity intensi-ty in modern glacierized regions. These hazards are characterized by their spatial aggregation and temporal repeatability. Comprehensive knowledge about mountain glacier-related hazards is critical for hazard assessment, mitigation, and pre-vention in the mountain cryosphere and downstream regions. This article systematically schematizes various mountain gla-cier-related hazards and analyzes their inherent associations with glacier changes. Besides, the processes, manifestations, and mechanisms of each of the glacier-related hazards are summarized. In the future, more extensive and detailed system-atic surveys, for example, considering integrated ground-air-space patterns, should be undertaken for typical glacier-ized regions to enhance existing knowledge of such hazards. The use of coupled numerical models based on multi-source data is challenging but will be essential to improve our understanding of the complex chain of processes involved in thermal-hydrogeomorphic glacier-related hazards in the mountain cryosphere.