Identification of glacial meltwater runoff in a karstic environment and its implication for present and future water availability

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3261-3277

  Finger, D ^a,f   Hugentobler, A ^a   Huss, M ^b   Voinesco, A ^b,c   Wernli, H ^a   Fischer, D ^a   Weber, E ^d   Jeannin, P Y ^d   Kauzlaric, M ^a   Wirz, A ^a   Vennemann, T ^e   Husler F ^a   Schadler B ^a   Weingartner, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^d Institut Suisse de Speleologie et de Karstologie   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; FLUORESCENT TRACERS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; GLACIAL MELTWATER; TRACER EXPERIMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; SPRINGS (WATER); WATER MANAGEMENT;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FLOW PATTERN; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLACIER RETREAT; KARST HYDROLOGY; MELTWATER; RUNOFF; TRACER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; PLAINE MORTE GLACIER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84883131035     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-3261-2013     Document Type: Article

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