Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 511, Issue , 2015, Pages 639-648

  Ballesteros Canovas J A ^a,b   Czajka, B ^c   Janecka, K ^c   Lempa, M ^c   Kaczka, R J ^c   Stoffel, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dendrogeomorphology; Hydrometeorological triggers; Norway spruce; Paleohydrology; Poland; Tatra Mountains

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF;

DENDROGEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL TRIGGERS; NORWAY SPRUCE; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; POLAND; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

FLOODS;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PALEOHYDROLOGY; TREE RING;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; FLOODING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); TREE;

MOUNTAINS; PICEA ABIES; POLAND; TREES;

CARPATHIANS; POLAND; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84921531296     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.081     Document Type: Article

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