Fluvial suspended sediment transport from cold and warm-based glaciers in Svalbard

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 957-974

  Hudson, Andrew J ^a   Ferguson, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic glaciers; Glacier hydrology; Proglacial hydrology; Regression modelling; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0033385518     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199910)24:11<957::AID-ESP19>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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