© International Glaciological Society The role of sedirn.ent transport in the rn.echanics of jokulhlaups

ABSTRACT. The classical theory of jokulhlaups used Rothlisberger's earlier theory of ice-channel drainage to describe the development of the Oood hydrograph. This theory has some drawbacks: the mechanism o [ initiation (breaking the seal) is opaque, the l\i[anning roughness coefficient is too l...

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Main Authors: A. C. Fowler, F. S. L. Ne
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