Glacier Outburst Floods: Data, Processes, Landforms and Environmental Implications

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the opening of a new Special Issue in the Applied Sciences Journal.

Extreme geological phenomena with catastrophic environmental and socioeconomic consequences have often been initiated by the current rapid climate changes and also in the Pleistocene. These changes are particularly important because they are related to the rapid melting of glaciers, which results in large volumes of freshwater inputs into the proglacial area and into the ocean as meltwater pulses. As a result, glacier outburst floods cause sudden increases in glacial process activity, which significantly transform land relief and influence the ocean circulation and global climate changes. It is also necessary to discuss these processes more in depth in terms of socioeconomic consequences.  

This Special Issue welcomes original research papers and reviews focusing on recent advances and novelties in the field of glacier outburst floods in terms of their causes and geomorphological, hydrological, and socioeconomic consequences.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Short- and log-term investigations on glacier outburst floods and glacier dynamics in contemporary glaciated areas;
• Meltwater drainage monitoring and databases in outburst floods investigations and prediction;
• The causes of glacier outburst floods and their consequences on a landscape transformation and climate changes in the past and in the future;
• The impact of large quantities of meltwaters injections into the Ocean on its water circulation;
• Floodwater sources and tracks in the glacial system susceptible to buffering and rapid meltwater release;
• Hydrological, geomorphological, and sedimentological investigations on glacier outburst floods causes and consequences;
• Socioeconomic consequences of contemporary glacier outburst floods.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Piotr Weckwerth
Dr. Edyta Kalińska
Guest Editors

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• glacier outburst floods
• climate changes
• meltwaters
• landforms and sediments
• ide-dammed lakes
• meltwater drainage