A preliminary study of definition and classification of ice avalanche in the Tibetan Plateau region

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The Tibetan Plateau has the largest ice avalanche in China. Since the 20th Century, with global warming, more and more ice avalanches have occurred in this region, which makes serious loss of life and property of the local residents. Further researches and investigations on ice avalanches have important practical significance for preventing and reducing the disasters. On the basis of the analysis and summary of the disaster mode, the avalanches movements and influence factors, in combination with the typical characteristics of the ice avalanche in alpine valley region, the authors elaborated the definition of the ice avalanche disaster. It is considered that ice avalanche disaster should not only contain the formation of the disasters directly induced by ice avalanche but also include the chain-type disaster induced by ice avalanche. Based on the definition, the authors also divided ice avalanche disaster into three types, i.e., ice avalanche direct hazard, ice avalanche induced glacier lake outburst flood hazard and ice avalanche induced dammed lake outburst flood hazard. The authors want to establish some universal and practical classification criteria which could provide the theoretical and scientific basis for the further study about disaster prevention, mitigation and relief of ice avalanche in the Tibetan Plateau.

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Corresponding Authors: Jienan TU E-mail: tujienan@outlook.com

Issue Date: 18 June 2020

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	Liqiang TONG
	Lixin PEI
	Jienan TU
	Zhaocheng GUO
	Jiangkuan YU
	Jinghui FAN
	Dandan LI

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Liqiang TONG,Lixin PEI,Jienan TU, et al. A preliminary study of definition and classification of ice avalanche in the Tibetan Plateau region[J]. Remote Sensing for Land & Resources, 2020, 32(2): 11-18.

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Fig.1 Remote sensing image and field photo of Aru glacier collapse in Ngari, Tibet

Fig.2 Variation of average temperature, preicipitation in Rutog County andthe glacier area on the west side of Aru Co

Fig.3 Remote sensing image about Glacier Lake Outburst Flood event of Recire Co

Fig.4 Remote sensing image before and after the ice avalanche of Sedongpu Valley on 2017 October

Fig.5 Comparison Landsat 8 remote sensing image about upstream provenance of Sedongpu Valley before and after debris flow

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