Extreme erosional events and natural hazards in Scandinavian mountains

Ambio

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 292-299

  Nyberg, Rolf ^a   Rapp, Anders ^b  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURAL HAZARD;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0031847026     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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30. The authors express their warm thanks to the Abisko Research Station and their staff for much help and cooperation Particular thanks go to many other colleagues for reports of observations in connection with extreme erosional events, e.g. B Seyffarth, Oslo, D Scherer and M. Gude, Basel R Lundqvist, A. Nordin, H. Vedin, L. and Å. Frolander provided us with data and observations on Mt. Fulufjäll.