Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration

Pradhananga, Dhiraj; Pomeroy, John W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2605-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2605-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2605-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 10

Research article

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18 May 2022

Research article |

| 18 May 2022

Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration

Dhiraj Pradhananga and John W. Pomeroy

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2605-2022-supplement

Data sets

Hydrometeorological, glaciological and geospatial research data from the Peyto Glacier Research Basin in the Canadian Rockies D. Pradhananga, J. Pomeroy, C. Aubry-Wake, D. Munro, J. Shea, M. Demuth, N. Kirat, B. Menounos, and K. Mukherjee https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0259

Short summary

This study considers the combined impacts of climate and glacier changes due to recession on the hydrology and water balance of two high-elevation glaciers. Peyto and Athabasca glacier basins in the Canadian Rockies have undergone continuous glacier loss over the last 3 to 5 decades, leading to an increase in ice exposure and changes to the elevation and slope of the glacier surfaces. Streamflow from these glaciers continues to increase more due to climate warming than glacier recession.