Lalit Kumar Chhetri's scientific contributions

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Fig. 1 Map of Bhutan showing the location of Lemthang Tsho
Table 1 Estimated peak discharge of GLOF and the distance to downstream...
Fig. 2 Repeat photograph of Lemthang Tsho: top (pre event, May 2015)...
Table 2 Summary of estimated discharge at three downstream sites
+3 Fig. 3 Time series Landsat images showing growth progression of...
Tsho Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Bhutan: cause and impact.
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  • Jan 2017
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region being seismically active and sensitive to climate change is prone to glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). The Lemthang Tsho GLOF breached in the evening of 28 July 2015 innorth-western Bhutan is reminds of the looming threat, and stresses the need to have good risk management plan. The need to understand the phy...
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... Bhutan's economic development is closely linked to its natural resources, which are extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change events, particularly floodings from glacial lake outbursts (GLOFs) (Veh et al., 2020). Such events ought to take more relevance when about 2% of Bhutan's glacial lakes have been identified as being at high risk of GLOFs, and this percentage will only increase as temperatures continue to rise (Gurung et al., 2017). ...
Reference: The political economy of net-zero transitions: Policy drivers, barriers, and justice benefits to decarbonization in eight carbon-neutral countries
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