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

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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.
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