Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-147-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-147-2025
Research article
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07 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 07 Feb 2025

Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas

Abhishek Kashyap, Kristen L. Cook, and Mukunda Dev Behera

Data sets

ERA5-Land: Post-processed daily hydroclimatic statistics from 1950 to present C3S - Copernicus Climate Change Service https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/stac-browser/collections/derived-era5-land-daily-statistics

MODIS Daily Datasets NASA https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/

Model code and software

tigramite J. Runge https://github.com/jakobrunge/tigramite

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Short summary
Short-lived, high-magnitude flood events across high mountain regions leave substantial geomorphic imprints, which are frequently triggered by excess precipitation, glacial lake outbursts, and natural dam breaches. These catastrophic floods highlight the importance of understanding the complex interaction between climatic, hydrological, and geological forces in bedrock catchments. Extreme floods can have long-term geomorphic consequences on river morphology and fluvial processes.
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