A worldwide event-based debris flow barrier dam dataset from 1800 to 2023

作者：Haiguang Cheng, Kaiheng Hu, Shuang Liu, Xiaopeng Zhang, Hao Li, Qiyuan Zhang, Lan Ning, Manish Raj Gouli, Pu Li, Anna Yang, Peng Zhao, Junyu Liu, Li Wei · 发表于：Earth system science data · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.5194/essd-17-1573-2025 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Landslides and related hazards、Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Dam Engineering and Safety

Abstract. Debris flows, as a special kind of landslide, often block rivers to form barrier dams and trigger a series of disasters such as upstream aggradation and outburst floods. The understanding of debris flow barrier dams (DFBDs) is poor, mostly due to existing studies focusing on individual events and a lack of summarization of multiple DFBD events. The existing global or regional datasets of landslide barrier dams (LDs) contain only a few cases of DFBDs and ignore the differences between DFBDs and other landslide barrier dams (LDs), such as the dams of rock slides, debris avalanches, or earth slides. To fill this gap, we reviewed 2519 high-quality literature and media reports. Focusing on identified debris flow damming events, a rigorous data review and validation process was conducted using Google Earth. A systematic approach was employed to prioritize conflicting information from various data sources. Consequently, a global dataset was compiled, encompassing 555 historical DFBDs from 1800 to 2023. This pioneering global dataset includes 6 categories and 38 attributes, detailing DFBDs. It captures basic information (location, the date of formation, etc.), dam characteristics (height, length, volume, etc.), lake characteristics (area, capacity, length), debris flow characteristics (velocity, discharge, volume, etc.), failure characteristics (peak discharge, loss of life, etc.), and climate characteristics (precipitation and temperature). Our dataset elucidates that DFBD...