Glacial Hazards in Chile: Processes, Assessment, Mitigation, and Risk Management Strategies

冰川湖暴发洪水对世界许多山区的社区和基础设施构成重大危险，包括智利和其他一些低收入国家。上个世纪，随着冰川因全球气候变化而消退，形成了越来越多的冰川湖泊系统，这种格罗夫灾害有所增加。在冰川下面或冰川表面储存水的任何地方，在冰锋或冰坝后面积水的地方，或者在冰川边缘和退缩的冰川边缘之间发育的前冰川湖泊中储存水的地方，都可能发生暴发洪水。后一类湖泊(冰河堰塞湖)特别危险，因为冰雹大坝突然坍塌可能会引发大量积水的释放。仅在秘鲁，来自冰川源头的暴发洪水在20世纪就造成约32,000人死亡，并摧毁了重要的经济基础设施、定居点和宝贵的耕地。在尼泊尔喜马拉雅，据估计，一场暴发的洪水摧毁一个成熟的单一水电设施所造成的损失可能超过5亿美元。随着冰川的消退，智利现在正在发展冰坝湖泊和冰河堤坝湖泊。它们对下游的社区和基础设施构成了越来越大的威胁。该项目将回答有关智利过去、现在和未来冰川危害的问题。我们将评估它们在当前和未来全球气候变化下的变化幅度、频率和分布。我们将编制智利历史上第一个完整的GLOF清单，并确定未来可能发生冰川灾害的地点。我们将使用基于物理的数值模型来模拟被确定为高风险地点的GLOF，并使用这些模拟来做出灾害和洪水风险预测，这些预测可以为智利和全球其他低收入国家的规划者和决策者提供信息。

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) pose a significant hazard to communities and infrastructure in many mountainous parts of the world, including Chile and a number of other lower income countries. This GLOF hazard has increased over the last century as glaciers recede in response to global climate change forming a growing number of glacial lake systems. Outburst floods can occur anywhere that water is stored beneath or on the surface of a glacier, where water becomes ponded behind an ice front or ice dam, or where water is stored in proglacial lakes that develop between a moraine and a receding glacier margin. Lakes in the latter category (moraine-dammed lakes) are particularly hazardous because a sudden collapse of the moraine dam can trigger the release of large volumes of ponded water. In Peru alone, outburst floods from glacial sources caused ~ 32,000 deaths in the 20th century, as well as destroying vital economic infrastructure, settlements and valuable arable land. In the Nepal Himalaya, it has been estimated that the costs associated with the destruction of a mature single hydropower installation by an outburst flood could exceed USD 500 million. Ice-dammed and moraine-dammed lakes are now developing in Chile as glaciers recede. They pose an ever-increasing threat to communities and infrastructure downstream. This project will answer questions concerning the past, present and future glacial hazards in Chile. We will assess their changing magnitude, frequency, and distribution under current and future global climate change. We will produce the first complete inventory of historical GLOFs in Chile and identify sites that have the potential to develop glacial hazards in the future. We will use physically-based numerical models to simulate GLOFs at sites identified as posing a high hazard and use these simulations to make hazard and flood risk predictions that can inform planners and decision-makers in Chile and other lower income countries globally.