Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-3461-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-3461-2014
Research article
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09 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2014

New method for assessing the susceptibility of glacial lakes to outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

A. Emmer and V. Vilímek

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