Fig. 1: Regional distribution of GLOF lake areas.
From: Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area
Global overview (centre) of the 13 study regions surrounded by higher-resolution maps of these areas. The open circles show lake areas before outbursts that occurred between 1990 and 2023. We chose the largest of all lake areas in the case of repeated outbursts from the same lake. The pie charts distinguish ice-dammed lakes (ice-dammed and supraglacial) from moraine- and bedrock-dammed lakes, with the total number of burst lakes in each region indicated below the charts; the legend shows the ratio across all regions. The dark grey outlines of the study regions represent (partly dissolved) O2 polygons from the RGI V6.0 (https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0770/versions/6). Country (white) and continental (brown) boundaries are from the online ArcGIS Hub hosted by Esri Data and Maps (https://hub.arcgis.com/). Background maps show shaded reliefs of the 2022 ETOPO Global Relief Model (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/etopo-global-relief-model). Maps created using QGIS V3.22.6 (https://www.qgis.org/). HK, Hindu Kush.
