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Climate change fundamentally transforms glaciated high-alpine regions, with well-known cryospheric and hydrological implications, such as accelerating glacier retreat, transiently increased runoff, longer snow-free periods and more frequent and intense summer rainstorms. These changes affect the availability and transport of sediments in high alpine areas by altering the interaction and intensity of different erosion processes and catchment properties. Gaining insight into the future alterations in suspended sediment transport by high alpine streams is crucial, given its wide-ranging implications, e.g. for flood damage potential, flood hazard in downstream river reaches, hydropower production, riverine ecology and water quality. However, the current understanding of how climate change will impact suspended sediment dynamics in these high alpine regions is limited. For one, this is due to the scarcity of measurement time series that are long enough to e.g. infer trends. On the other hand, it is difficult - if not impossible - to ...
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kumulative Dissertation
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2023
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schmidt, Lena Katharina Altered hydrological and sediment dynamics in high-alpine areas Potsdam, 2023
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Englisch
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-62330
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-623302
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