Glacier inventory is the basic data for hydrological, water resources and climate change research. Glacier inventories have been created for the Third Pole Region (TPR) or high Asia, yet they are different in coverage area and vary largely in quality. It is thus necessary to assess their quality in order to provide information for potential users to choose the right glacier inventories. Using the analytic hierarchy process, this study selects eight assessment factors and assesses the comprehensive quality of eight glacier inventories of the TPR by grading. The assessment results indicate that the comprehensive quality of the small-scale glacier inventories of WHGI, KPGI, PGI-2 and SETPGI is generally higher than that of the large-scale ones of RGI, GGI18, CGI-2 and HKHGI. Of the latter, the quality-ranking order from high to low is CGI-2, GGI18, RGI and HKHGI. However, the comprehensive quality of CGI-2 and GGI18 is comparable over the CGI-2 area. The comprehensive quality of CGI-2, GG
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elevation changes. the good news for that is people can get out of the relative danger zone fairly easy and effectively. we have been talking about needing to seek higher ground now that the tsunami warnings have been cancelled. there s no longer a threat for dangerous, impactful tsunamis but that doesn t mean the water won t come happening up on the shoreline. you need to be cognizant of that. the bigger struggle moving forward will be the potential damage for homes and to the s r infrastructure. we have seen pictures of roadways that have been split by the shaking. we have also heard about fires. i believe miguel was telling us about several fires have erupted. i think that s probably because of broken gas lines. anyone who has gas power for anything in their home or business might have that line ruptured. all gas needs to be turned off in homes or buildings that have gas power.
quickly. there s not a lot of elevation changes and the water is just kind of sitting there, slowly creeping down to the ocean. that s why we re going to be talking. i could show you these pictures four to five days from now, some areas are still going to be this flooded. that means people are out of their homes that much longer. we don t have proper damage assessments yet because the water is still rising in a few spots. here s one of them. this is one of the biggest rivers in eastern north carolina. it crested last night. all time record crest, so we re at 29.3 feet. we re still going to be above major flood stage by sunday. the river only goes down about two and a half feet in five days. that s just ridiculous and painful. the next big weather event that s going to happen is moving into the west. we re getting active in the pacific. we have one storm here that s going to come onshore tomorrow bringing heavy rain, then we have a typhoon that s well out in the pacific, extra tropical