Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1611-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1611-2014
Research article
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27 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 27 Jun 2014

Risk estimation for future glacier lake outburst floods based on local land-use changes

S. Nussbaumer, Y. Schaub, C. Huggel, and A. Walz

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