Catalina lake consequences
Catalina lake is a gigantic glacier dammed lake on the Renland peninsula, in the Scoresbysund region in East-Greenland. Every 1-2 decades it breaks through the glacier dam and a very large volume of …
Nov 17, 2024Outburst Flood
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Periodic outburst floods from an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland
We report evidence of four cycles of outburst floods from Catalina Lake, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland, identified in satellite imagery between 1966–2016. The lake measures 20–25 km2, and lake …
Sep 6, 2017