Snowmelt and slushflows: hydrological and hazard implications

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 381-384

  Gude, Martin ^a   Scherer, Dieter ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ANALYSIS; SLUSHFLOW; SNOWMELT;

SVALBARD;

EID: 0031732604     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/1998aog26-1-381-384     Document Type: Article

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