... events in 1 964 , 197 0-1 972, 198 1-1 982 and 1988 (Fig 6. 7) in Tibetan Himalayas coincide roughly to 9-year or 10-year periodicity of climatic variation in temperature and precipitation (Xu and Quingua, ... 45 - 27° 50’ N 86 28’ E 4,580 55.1 131 3.2 0.5 1.39 76. 6 77 .6 45 - 28° 30’ N 84° 30’ E 4,1 46 41.8 81 2.0 0.45 0. 76 31.8 55.4 45+ - 27° 52’ N 86 35’ E 4, 365 20 1.21 0.44 0.5 10 50 27° 44’ N 86 ... (quoted in Mool et al., 2001; Karma et al., 2003) For instance, the area of Rapstreng Tsho Glacier Lake was 0.15 km2 in 1 960 s, in 19 86 the lake was 1 .65 km long and 0. 96 km wide and 80 m deep and in...