Study on climate extremes and glacial lake outburst floods

Abstract

This study is focused on the climate extremes and glacial lake outburst flood over the Teesta River catchment up to Chugthang which is a part of Eastern Himalaya A Statistical Downscaling Model SDSM has been applied for downscaling of precipitation and temperature for present and 21st century scenarios Significant upward trend was found in annual precipitation and temperature during 2006 2100 The non monsoon precipitation had significant increasing trend whereas monsoon precipitation sh