Dr. Georg Veh

• DFG-funded project (VE 1363/2-1): Glaciers, lakes, and outburst floods: Changing hazards in the NW Pacific Coastal Mountains (as PI, together with Anja Dufresne, Oliver Korup, Marten Geertsema, and John Clague)

Peer-reviewed publications

• Veh, G., Schwanghart, W., Korup, O., and J.L. Carrivick (2026). Evolving resource potential of glacial lakes with ongoing deglaciation. Nature Water, 4, 381–395, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00578-6
• Wang, X., Chen, W., Zhang, G., Emmer, A., Frey, H., Taylor, C., Huggel, C., Sattar, A., Zheng, G., Rashid, I., Carrivick, J.L., Veh, G., Allen, S., Steiner, J., Quincey, D., and M. Mergili (2025). Mitigating future glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya. Science Bulletin, 71, 159–171, doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.11.024
• Lützow, N., Higman, B., Truffer, M., Bookhagen, B., Knuth, F., Korup, O., Hughes, K.E., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and G. Veh (2025). Larger lake outbursts despite glacier thinning at ice-dammed Desolation Lake, Alaska, The Cryosphere, 19, 1085–1102, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1085-2025
• Qi, M., Liu, S., Zhao, Z., Gao, Y., Xie, F., Veh, G., Xiao, L., Jing, J., Zhu, Y., and K. Wu (2025). A mathematical model to improve water storage of glacial lake prediction towards addressing glacial lake outburst floods. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 969–982
• Veh, G., Wang, B.G., Zirzow, A., Schmidt, C., Lützow, N., Steppat, F., Zhang, G., Vogel, K., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and O. Korup (2025). Progressively smaller outbursts despite worldwide growth in lake area. Nature Water, 3, 271–283, 10.1038/s44221-025-00388-w
• Zhang, G., Carrivick, J. L., Emmer, A., Shugar, D. H., Veh, G., Wang, X., Labedz, C., Mergili, M., Mölg, N., Huss M., Allen, S., Sugiyama, S., and N. Lützow (2024). Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 10.1038/s43017-024-00554-w
• Wang, X., Zhang, G., Veh, G., Sattar, A., Wang, W., Allen, S., Bolch, T., Peng, M., and F. Xu (2024). Reconstructing glacial lake outburst floods in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya, Geomorphology, 449(7), 109063 
• Peng, M., Wang, X., Zhang, G., Veh, G., Sattar, A., Chen, W., and S. Allen (2023). Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology, 626, 130155, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130155
• Pfau, M., Veh, G., and W. Schwanghart (2023). Cast shadows reveal changes in glacier surface elevation. The Cryosphere, 17(8), 3535-3551, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3535-2023
• Andermann, C., Nepal, S., Maharjan, S.B., Schwanghart, W., Veh, G., Azam, M.F., Wagnon, P., and F. Brun (2023). Glaciers and Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in the Himalayas. In: Himalaya, dynamics of a giant 3: Current Activity of the Himalayan Range, Wiley, 57-83, doi.org/10.1002/9781394228683.ch3
• Lützow, N., Veh, G., and O. Korup (2023). A global database of historic glacier lake outburst floods. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2983–3000, doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2983-2023
• Zhang, G., Bolch, T., Yao, T., Wang, M., Chen, W., Wang, W., Rounce, D.R., Veh, G., King, O., and S. Allen (2023). Underestimated glacier mass loss in the Himalayas. Nature Geoscience, 16, 333-338, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01150-1
• Veh, G., Lützow, N., Tamm, J., Luna, L.V., Hugonnet, R., Vogel, K., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and O. Korup (2023). Less extreme and earlier outbursts from ice-dammed lakes since 1900. Nature, 614, 701–707, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05642-9
• Fischer, M., Lehnigk, K., Lützow, N., Brettin, J., Veh, G., Larsen, I.J., Korup, O. & Walz, A. (2023). Himalayan hazard cascades – Modern and Medieval outburst floods in Pokhara, Nepal, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi.org/10.1002/esp.5539
• Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., & Korup, O. (2022). Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods. Earth's Future, 10, e2021EF002426. doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002426
• Emmer, A., Mergili, M., and Veh, G. (2021). Glacial lake outburst floods: geomorphological agents and hazardous phenomena, Treatise on Geomorphology, 18 p., doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00057-2
• Fischer, M., Korup, O., Veh, G., and A. Walz (2021). Controls of outbursts of Himalayan moraine-dammed lakes, The Cryosphere, 15, 4145–4163, doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4145-2021, 2021
• Veh, G., O. Korup, S., and A. Walz (2020). Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. PNAS, 117, 2, 907-912, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914898117
• Veh, G. (2019): Outburst floods from moraine-dammed lakes in the Himalayas: Detection, frequency, and hazard. Doctoral thesis, University of Potsdam, https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/43607
• Veh, G., O. Korup, S., von Specht, S. Roessner, and A. Walz (2019). Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya. Nature Climate Change, 9, 379-383, dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0437-5
• von Specht, S., Ozturk, U., Veh, G., Cotton, F., Korup, O., (2019). Effects of finite source rupture on landslide triggering: the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake. Solid Earth, 10, 463-486, doi.org/10.5194/se-10-463-2019
• Veh, G., O. Korup, S. Roessner, A. Walz (2018). Detecting Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods from Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 207: 84-97
• Dietze, E., Słowiński, M., Zawiska, I., Veh, G. & A. Brauer (2016). Multiple drivers of Holocene lake level changes at a lowland lake in northeastern Germany. BOREAS, 45 (4), 828-845