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HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY
OF A SUPRAGLACIAL STREAM,

RAGNARBREEN, SPITSBERGEN

Andrzej Kostrzewski and Zbigniew Zwolinski

Quaternary Research Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University

Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznan, Poland
anko@amu.edu.pl zbzw at amu.edu.pl

Kostrzewski A., Zwoliński Zb., 1995: Hydraulic geometry of a supraglacial stream. Quaestiones Geographicae, Special Issue No. 4, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, 1995, p. 165-176, Figs 5, Tables 5. ISBN 83-232-685-6. ISSN 0137-477X.

ABSTRACT. The paper presents the variability of geometric and hydraulic parameters of channel cross-sections down the long profile of a supraglacial stream on the Ragnarbreen. The dependence of hydraulic geometry on the changing discharge is defined. A model of a 3-stage development of newly forming supraglacial channels is proposed.

Contents

Introduction
Catchments of supraglacial streams
Study area
Research methods
Weather conditions
Variability and relations of geometric and hydraulic parameters
Downstream hydraulic geometry
A model of the evolution of a supraglacial channel
Final conclusions
References

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