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

智利的冰川灾害：流程、评估、缓解和风险管理策略

• 批准号: MR/N026462/1
• 负责人: Neil Glasser
• 金额: $ 28.66万
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FN026462%2F1
• 关键词: Glacial; Hazards; Chile; Processes; Assessment

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.

冰川湖溃决洪水（GLOFs）对世界许多山区的社区和基础设施构成严重危害，包括智利和其他一些低收入国家。在上个世纪，由于全球气候变化，冰川退缩，形成越来越多的冰川湖系统，这种冰川湖的危害有所增加。爆发洪水可能发生在任何地方，水储存在冰川下面或表面上，水在冰前或冰坝后面形成积水，或者水储存在冰碛和退缩冰川边缘之间的冰前湖泊中。后一类湖泊（冰碛湖）特别危险，因为冰碛坝的突然倒塌会引发大量积水的释放。仅在秘鲁，20世纪冰川源爆发的洪水就造成约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。在尼泊尔喜马拉雅地区，据估计，一次突发洪水摧毁一个成熟的单一水电设施的相关费用可能超过5亿美元。随着冰川的消退，冰坝湖和冰碛湖正在智利发展。它们对下游社区和基础设施构成日益严重的威胁。该项目将回答有关智利过去、现在和未来冰川灾害的问题。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。我们将在智利制作第一份完整的历史冰川灾害清单，并确定未来有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构成高危险的地点的GLOFs，并使用这些模拟来进行灾害和洪水风险预测，以便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。