Database of Himalayan glacial lakes

This dataset contains a shapefile of 2231 Himalayan glacial lakes ranging in size between 875 m2 to 5.6 km2. The lakes were manually digitized using high-resolution imagery in GoogleEarth in 2015. The dataset has been mapped and used by Schwanghart et al. (2016). In addition, the dataset contains a shapefile of the great circle that describes the Himalayan Arc (Bendick and Bilham, 2001) as well as a polygon shape which segments the Himalayan arc along the the great circle into 99 polygon.

References

Bendick, R. and Bilham, R.: How perfect is the Himalayan arc?, Geology, 29, 791–794, https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0791:HPITHA>2.0.CO;2, 2001.

Schwanghart, W., Worni, R., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M., and Korup, O.: Uncertainty in the Himalayan energy–water nexus: estimating regional exposure to glacial lake outburst floods, Environ. Res. Lett., 11, 074005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074005, 2016.