The Magnitude of Jökulhlaups
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- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Glaciology
- Vol. 12 (66) , 501-504
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000031907
Abstract
A review of available information on six self-dumping glacier-dammed lakes indicates that instantaneous discharge during a jökulhlaup is proportional to some power of the cumulative volume of water released rather than being a direct function of time. Information on these and four other self-dumping lakes, moreover, indicates that the peak discharge at the end of each jökulhlaup is approximately proportional to the two-thirds power of the total volume of water released during the flood.Keywords
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