The Influence of Glacier Retreat on Water Yield from High Mountain Areas: Comparison of Alps and Central Asia

Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 261-275

  Hagg, Wilfried ^a   Braun, Ludwig ^a  

^a BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glacier mass balance behaviour; Glacier melt and precipitation; Glacier runoff; HBV ETH model; HBVETH precipitation runoff model; Runoff compensation theory; Snow and glacier subroutine; Tuyuksu glacier and Glacier No. 1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889446925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470858249.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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