Glacier hydrology in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 957-973

  Hodgkins, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER; MELTWATER; RUNOFF;

SVALBARD;

EID: 0031407698     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00032-2     Document Type: Article

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