Articles | Volume 3, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-171-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-171-2015
Research article
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16 Mar 2015
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2015

Numerical modelling of glacial lake outburst floods using physically based dam-breach models

M. J. Westoby, J. Brasington, N. F. Glasser, M. J. Hambrey, J. M. Reynolds, M. A. A. M. Hassan, and A. Lowe

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