Raghu Murtugudde, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland in the United States, told Down to Earth, “What is unusual in the current scenario is the very warm temperature anomaly to the west of north India over Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Fortunately, no casualties were reported but the damage to buildings and roads was immense.
The cloudburst happened in Devprayag, resulting in two local municipality buildings getting completely washed away. Tehri Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Uttarkashi and Chamoli districts have reported many events of cloudburst in the month of May, causing heavy damage to the hill state.Ībout two weeks ago, heavy rainfall triggered by a cloudburst caused severe damage to buildings in Tehri Garhwal district.
However, increased frequency of the natural occurrence in recent months has been attributed to unusual warming of the region, reported Down to Earth. Disaster Management and Risk Reduction, Aavishkar Publications, Jaipur, 2013.Increased temperature resulted in sudden drop in air pressure and brought the winds in at a very high speed, said Raghu Murtugudde, a climate scientist.Ĭloudburst, which means sudden heavy rainfall in a short period of time in a given region, is not a new phenomenon for Uttarakhand, a hill state located at the foothills of the Himalayas. Mountain Research and Development, 1994,14(1): 1-24 ěandyopadhyay, J., Gyawali, D., Himalayan water resources: ecological and political aspects of management. Z., Chen, S.B., Mutual influence between human activities and climate change in the tibetan plateau during recent years.Global and Planetary Change, 2004,41: 241-249 Y.’ Kawashima, S., Yonemura, S., Zhang, X. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon, S Qin, D Manning, M Chen, Z Marquis, M Averyt, KB Tignor, M Miller, HL (eds.), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Messerli, The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation. K., Geological & Geotechnical Investigations of Patalganga Landslide adjacent to NH-58, Garhwal, Uttaranchal – A Case Study, Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference, Chennai, 2006. Kumar, K., Subramanya, P., and Kanuijia, V. Proceeding of National Symposium on Landslides in Sri Lanka, 1994, pp: 271- 284 ěhandari, R.K., Landslide Hazard Mapping in Sri Lanka - a Holistic Approach. ICIMOD, Inventory of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Identification of Potential Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOFs) Affected by Global Warming in the Mountains of the Himalayan Region (DVD ROM). ICIMOD, Flash Flood Hotspot Mapping in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region (draft DVD ROM). (eds) Landslide Hazard Mitigation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Kathmandu: ICIMOD, 2001 pp. R., An introduction to climate, hydrology and landslide hazards in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region. P., Climate Disasters in the Himalaya: Risk and Vulnerability, International Conference on Climate Change and Natural Hazards in Mountain Areas, Dushanbe Sept. P., Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Development in the Pindar Basin, Himalaya, Dehradun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2008.
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Further, large-scale tree plantation on the degraded land will reduce the magnitude of hazards.ĭigital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1315647 Procedia APA BibTeX Chicago EndNote Harvard JSON MLA RIS XML ISO 690 PDF We suggested that construction of human settlements, institutions and infrastructural facilities along the seasonal streams and the perennial rivers should be avoided to prevent disasters. Our study shows that although cloudburst triggered hazards in the Uttarakhand Himalaya are natural phenomena and unavoidable yet, disasters can be minimized if preventive measures are taken up appropriately. In the second week of August 2017, about 50 people died and huge losses to property were noticed due to cloudburst-triggered flashfloods. We conducted this study through collection of archival data, case study of cloudburst hit areas, and rapid field visit of the affected regions. It further describes mechanism and implications of natural hazards and illustrates the preventive and mitigation measures. This article examines cloudburst-triggered natural hazards mainly flashfloods and landslides in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.
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