Floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains - A Polish-Swiss research project

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 620-641

  Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^b   Kaczka, Ryszard J ^c   Wyzga, Bartłomiej ^c,d   Niedźwiedź, Tadeusz ^c   Pińskwar, Iwona ^a   Ruiz Villanueva, Virginia ^b   Łupikasza, Ewa ^c   Czajka, Barbara ^c   Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio ^b   Małarzewski, Łukasz ^c   Choryński, Adam ^a   Janecka, Karolina ^c   Mikuś, Paweł ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENVIRONMENT   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

climate impact; dendrogeomorphology; floods; Tatra Mountains; wood debris transport

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; LANDFORMS; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; DENDROGEOMORPHOLOGY; FLOOD RISK REDUCTION; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; TATRA MOUNTAINS; WOOD DEBRIS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLOOD; FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; WOODY DEBRIS;

CARPATHIANS; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84897574087     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-013-0192-3     Document Type: Article

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