“…Tens of individual GLOF events have been reported since 2017 in different parts of the world including the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya (Byers et al, 2019;Yin et al, 2019;Khan et al, 2021;Maharjan et al, 2021;Muhammad et al, 2021), the Tien Shan (Dayirov and Narama, 2020), the Tibetan Plateau (Zheng et al, 2021b), the Tropical Andes (Vilca et al, 2021;Emmer et al, 2022), the Southern Andes (Anyia et al, 2020;Vandekerkhove et al, 2021), the European Alps (Troilo, 2021;Ogier et al, 2021;Stefaniak et al, 2021), Alaska (Kienholz et al, 2020;Abdel-Fattah et al, 2021), British Columbia (Geertsema et al, 2022), Greenland (Tomczyk et al, 2021) and Scandinavia (Andreassen et al, 2022). Recently, Veh et al (2022) compiled globally by far the most complete GLOF inventory (total of >2800 GLOFs until March 2022; available from http://glofs.geoecology.…”