2011
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3602823
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Glacier Water Resources on the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Abstract: Maps of glacier area in western Canada have recently been generated for 1985(Bolch et al., 2010, providing the first complete inventory of glacier cover in Alberta and British Columbia. Western Canada lost about 11% of its glacier area over this period, with area loss exceeding 20% on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. Glacier area is difficult to relate to glacier volume, which is the attribute of relevance to water resources and global sea level rise. We apply several possible volume-area scaling re… Show more

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“…An initialisation period of 300 years seemed to be sufficient to reach stability and is within the range of time length used in previous studies (Marshall et al, 2011;Naz et al, 2014).…”
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“…An initialisation period of 300 years seemed to be sufficient to reach stability and is within the range of time length used in previous studies (Marshall et al, 2011;Naz et al, 2014).…”
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“…Ice flow occurs if the critical height H c is exceeded; if the thickness decreases below H c , the ice area of the unit is proportionally decreased to simulate slow terminus recessions. Figure 2 shows the routing between the glacier units in a ] is based on Glen's Flow Law and the adaptation suggested by Marshall et al (2011): To account for more accurate glacier area changes that in turn have a strong impact on catchment wide glacier melt, the glacier critical height is maintained if melting occurs while the glacier is at this level and instead the fraction of glacier area is reduced, as illustrated in Figure 2b. This simulates the gradual recession of a glacier front up-slope, exposing a decreasing area to melting after the glacier falls below the critical height.…”
Section: Ice Flowmentioning
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“…Glacier hypsometry in a basin provides baseline data for regional estimates of glacier mass balance and meteorological sensitivity (Marshall et al, 2011). A 20 m DEM was obtained from Parks Canada to assess glacier hypsometry in the IRB.…”
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“…Glacier contributions to streamflow have been assessed in the southern Coast Mountains (e.g., Moore, 1993;Moore & Demuth, 2001) and on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Comeau, Pietroniro, & Demuth, 2009;Demuth et al, 2008;Hopkinson & Young, 1998;Marshall et al, 2011). Hopkinson and Young (1998) conclude that ice-melt from glaciers contributed 1.8% of the average annual discharge in the Bow River in Banff from 1951 to 1993, but as much as 15% of annual runoff and 50% of August flow in 1970, an extremely negative mass balance year.…”
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confidence: 99%