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Author : Clarke, G.K.C.; and Waldron, D.A.
Date : 1984
Title : Simulation of the August 1979 sudden discharge of glacier-dammed Flood Lake, British Columbia
Publication : Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Issue : 21(4):
Page(s) : 502-504
Abstract
In August 1979 a glacier outburst from Flood Lake, British Columbia, released 150 x 10^6 m^3 of water. The resulting flood was routed through the Stikine River and yielded a maximum discharge rate of 1200 m^3s^ -1 at a gauging station 90 km downstream from the glacier dam. We have used a computer model to stimulate this outburst in order to test the usefulness of the model as a predictor of flood magnitude. The predicted peak discharge is 2160 m^3 s^ -1 at the outlet tunnel of the ice dam and 1700 m^3s^ -1 at a gauging station.
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