Tracer experiments and borehole observations in the overdeepening of Aletschgletscher, Switzerland

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 253-260

  Hock, Regine ^a   Iken, Almut ^b,d   Wangler, Alexander ^c  

^a Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; DRAINAGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACER;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033375857     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756499781821742     Document Type: Article

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