River floods in glacier-covered catchments of the High Arctic: Billefjorden Wijdefjorden, Svalbard

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-122

  Rachlewicz, Grzegorz ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Floods; Glacier covered catchments; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; FLOOD; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SNOWMELT;

ARCTIC; BILLEFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 70449096655     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: 15025292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950902907835     Document Type: Article

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