Simon Cook 🏔❄🌊
@glaciocook.bsky.social
Research & teaching on Glaciers, Geohazards, Geomorphology, Climate Change at University of Dundee | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/simon-cook
🧊 The lag comes from the time taken for glacier retreat to form a lake, and also the destabilisation of surrounding valley walls due to glacier debuttressing and permafrost degradation (~70% of GLOFs are triggered by ice avalanches and landslides into lakes)
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🧊 The lag comes from the time taken for glacier retreat to form a lake, and also the destabilisation of surrounding valley walls due to glacier debuttressing and permafrost degradation (~70% of GLOFs are triggered by ice avalanches and landslides into lakes)
📌We built upon & revised existing GLOF inventories worldwide, generating a list of >600 GLOFs between 1900 and 2020, which we analysed.
🌡️ We found that global GLOF frequency has increased markedly since the late 20th century, with a lagged response time to rising temperatures of ~5 to 20 years
🌡️ We found that global GLOF frequency has increased markedly since the late 20th century, with a lagged response time to rising temperatures of ~5 to 20 years
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📌We built upon & revised existing GLOF inventories worldwide, generating a list of >600 GLOFs between 1900 and 2020, which we analysed.
🌡️ We found that global GLOF frequency has increased markedly since the late 20th century, with a lagged response time to rising temperatures of ~5 to 20 years
🌡️ We found that global GLOF frequency has increased markedly since the late 20th century, with a lagged response time to rising temperatures of ~5 to 20 years
Fractal nature of everything
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Fractal nature of everything
Several failed geocaches along the way, but the views were worth it
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Several failed geocaches along the way, but the views were worth it