Author(s): Wojciech Majewski
Linked Author(s): Wojciech Majewski
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Abstract: The paper presents general information about Poland and the city of Gdansk, which is the venue of the International Symposium on Ice. Gdansk, is a very important industrial, cultural, economic and scientific center in the northern Poland. It has been always closely connected with Vistula River, which discharges here to the Baltic Sea. There have been numerous benefits resulting from this situation, but also very often the city was flooded thus bringing sigruficant econorruc losses. Vistula is the largest Polish River. Its catchment occupies more than 50% of the country territory and its length exceeds one thousand kilometers. Various forms of ice predominantly caused floods on the Lower Vistula.
Year: 2000