Impacts of climate change on groundwater in permafrost areas: Case study from Svalbard, Norway

Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources: A Global Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 323-338

  Haldorsen, Sylvi ^a   Heim, Michael ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Martine ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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