Water flow through Mittivakkat Glacier, Ammassalik Island, SE Greenland

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-43

  Mernild, Sebastian H ^a   Hasholt, Bent ^a   Liston, Glen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage system; Flow time; Flow velocity; Greenland; Ink experiments; Mittivakkat Glacier; Runoff; SnowModel; Time area method

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; DYE TRACER; ENGLACIAL PROCESS; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; WATER FLOW;

AMMASSALIK ISLAND; ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 33748744266     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2006.10649543     Document Type: Article

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