Papers & Reports

Nepal

Rounce, D. R., Byers, A. C., Byers, E. A., and McKinney, D. C., Brief Communications: Observations of a Glacier Outburst Flood from Lhotse Glacier, Everest Area, Nepal, The Cryosphere, 11(1), 443-449, 2017

Byers, A. C., Byers, E. A., McKinney, D. C., Rounce, D. R., A Field-based Study of Impacts of the 2015 Earthquake on Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in Nepal, Himalaya, Manuscript #2306, 2017.

Rounce, D. R., Watson, C. S., McKinney, D. C., Identification of hazard and risk for glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya using satellite imagery from 2000 - 2015, Remote Sens. 9, 654; doi:10.3390/rs9070654, 2017

 Cuellar, A. D., McKinney, D. C., Decision Making Methodology for Risk Management Applied to Imja Lake in Nepal, Water - Special Issue “Global Warming Impacts on Mountain Glaciers and Communities,” water-205251, accepted Aug 2, 2017.

Rounce, D. R., D. C. McKinney, J.M. Lala, A.C. Byers, and C.S. Watson: A New Remote Hazard and Risk Assessment Framework for Glacial Lakes in the Nepal HimalayaHESSD, 2016.

Kargel, J. S., G. J. Leonard, D. H. Shugar, U. K. Haritashya, A. Bevington, E. J. Fielding, K. Fujita, M. Geertsema, E. S. Miles, J. Steiner, E. Anderson, S. Bajracharya, G. W. Bawden, D. F. Breashears, A. Byers, B. Collins, M. R. Dhital, A. Donnellan, T. L. Evans, M. L. Geai, M. T. Glasscoe, D. Green, D. R. Gurung, R. Heijenk, A. Hilborn, K. Hudnut, C. Huyck, W. W. Immerzeel, Jiang Liming, R. Jibson, A. Kääb, N. R. Khanal, D. Kirschbaum, P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink, D. Lamsal, Liu Shiyin, Lv Mingyang, D. McKinney, N. K. Nahirnick, Nan Zhuotong, S. Ojha, J. Olsenholler, T. H. Painter, M. Pleasants, Pratima KC, QI Yuan, B. H. Raup, D. Regmi, D. R. Rounce, A. Sakai, Shangguan Donghui, J. M. Shea, A. B. Shrestha, A. Shukla, D. Stumm, M. van der Kooij, K. Voss, Wang Xin, B. Weihs, D. Wolfe, Wu Lizong, Yao Xiaojun, M. R. Yoder, N. Young: Geomorphic and Tectonic Controls of Geohazards Induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Science, 2015. DOI: 10.1126/science.aac8353    


Lamsal, D., T. Sawagaki, T. Watanabe, A. C. Byers, D. C. McKinney, An assessment of conditions before and after the 1998 Tam Pokhari outburst in the Nepal Himalaya and an evaluation of the future outburst hazard, Hydrologic Processes, HYP-14-0950, in press, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10636.


Rounce, D. R., D. J. Quincey, and D. C. McKinney, Debris-Covered Energy Balance Model for Imja-Lhotse Shar Glacier in Everest Region of Nepal, The Cryosphere, 9, 1–16, 2015, doi:10.5194/tc-9-1-2015.


Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo A., Daene C. McKinney, Alton C. Byers, David R. Rounce, Cesar Portocarerro, Damodar Lamsal, Assessing Downstream Flood Impacts Due to a Potential GLOF from Imja Lake in Nepal, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 1401–1412, 2015.   http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/19/1401/2015/hess-19-1401-2015.html


Rounce, D. R. and McKinney, D. C.: Thermal resistances in the Everest Area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from satellite imagery using a nonlinear energy balance model, The Cryosphere, 8(4):1317–1329, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1317-2014, 2014 

 

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo, Daene C. McKinney, David R. Rounce, and Alton Byers (2014), Changes in Imja Tsho in the Mt. Everest Region of Nepal, The Cryosphere, 8, 1661-1671, 2014, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1661-2014


Byers, Alton C., Daene C. McKinney, Marcelo Somos, Teiji Watanabe, Damodar Lamsal, Glacial Lakes of the Hongu Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal, Natural Hazards, 69:115–139, 2013 


Summary Report: Investigation of the Imja Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk and Potential Remediation Measures, Khumbu, Nepal


Report on Bathymetric Survey of Imja Lake, Nepal 2012 


Report on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Surveys of Imja Lake, Nepal 2012  


Hydropower Site Study at Imja Lake and Dingboche Village


Proceedings of the Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange, September 3-28, 2011


Peru

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A., Chisolm, R. E., Rivas, D. S., Portocarrero, C., and McKinney, D. C.: Modeling glacial lake outburst flood process chain: the case of Lake Palcacocha and Huaraz, Peru, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., doi:10.5194/hess-2015-512, in review, 2016 

   

Rivas, D., M. A. Somos-Valenzuela, D.C. McKinney, B. R. Hodges, Predicting outflow induced by moraine failure in glacial lakes: the Lake Palcacocha case from an uncertainty perspective. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 2, 5971-6002, 2014. doi:10.5194/nhessd-2-5971-2015 


Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo A., Rachel E. Chisolm, Daene C. McKinney, Denny Rivas, Inundation Modeling of a Potential Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Huaraz, Peru, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, CRWR Online Report 14-01, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, March 2014 


Rivas, Denny, Amanda Cuellar and Daene C. McKinney, Quillcay Basin Water Resources Model, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, March 2014


Rivas, Denny, Amanda Cuellar and Daene C. McKinney, Quillcay Basin Geographic Information System, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, March 2014

   

Modeling a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood from Lake Palcacocha, Peru, Somos, Marcelo and Daene McKinney.  Proceedings, An Adaptation Partnership Workshop: Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange On Glaciers, Glacial lakes, Water & Hazard Management, 3-28 September 2011, Nepal.    


Addressing water availability and climate change issues in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru through technical analysis and community building strategies. Read, L.K. and D.C. McKinney, CRWR Online Report 10-09, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, December 2010.  


Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Study – Glacial Retreat and Adaptation Options in Peru’s Rio Santa River Basin. US Agency for International Development. Washington, DC: USAID. 2010. 


McKinney, D. C., R. E. Chisolm, M. Somos-Valenzuela, A. C. Byers, K. Voss, J. Gomez, Research at Huascaran National Park, June 30 – July 22, 2012, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, December 2012    


Conference Proceedings

Somos, Marcelo and Daene McKinney, Modeling a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood from Lake Palcacocha, Peru, Proceedings, An Adaptation Partnership Workshop: Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange On Glaciers, Glacial lakes, Water & Hazard Management, 3-28 September 2011, Nepal.

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