Repeated glacial-lake outburst floods in Patagonia: An increasing hazard?

Natural Hazards

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 469-481

  Dussaillant, Alejandro ^a,b,g   Benito, Gerardo ^c   Buytaert, Wouter ^d,e   Carling, Paul ^b   Meier, Claudio ^a,g   Espinoza, Fabián ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Dirección General de Aguas DGA   (Chile)

^g Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacial lake; J kulhlaup; Outburst flood; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; JOKULHLAUP; NATURAL HAZARD; OUTBURST;

AISEN; CHILE; COLONIA GLACIER; PATAGONIA;

EID: 77955776130     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9479-8     Document Type: Article

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