Hazard assessment investigations due to recent changes in Triftgletscher, Bernese Alps, Switzerland

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2149-2162

  Dalban Canassy, P ^a   Bauder, A ^a   Dost, M ^b   Fah R ^a   Funk, M ^a   Margreth, S ^c   Muller B ^d   Sugiyama, S ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Chemnitzer Werkstoffmechanik GmbH   (Germany)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; GEODESY; GLACIER RETREAT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; ICEBERG CALVING; MASS BALANCE; VOLUME CHANGE;

ALPS; BERNESE ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84861785692     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2149-2011     Document Type: Article

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