Glacial lake outburst flood at Kedarnath, Indian Himalaya: a study using digital elevation models and satellite images

Natural Hazards

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 769-786

  Das, Sayantan ^a   Kar, Nabendu Sekhar ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Sunando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Chorabari; DEM; GLOF; Kedarnath; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939941766     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1629-6     Document Type: Article

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