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Recent hydrological response of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies to changing climate and glacier configuration
Dhiraj Pradhananga
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Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, 1151 Sidney Street, Canmore, Alberta T1W 3G1, Canada
Department of Meteorology, Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Small Earth Nepal, P.O. Box 20533, Kathmandu, Nepal
John W. Pomeroy
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, 1151 Sidney Street, Canmore, Alberta T1W 3G1, Canada
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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.
This study considers the combined impacts of climate and glacier changes due to recession on the...
