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Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources

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This book presents the impact of climate change on Mount Baker glaciers, USA, and the rivers surrounding them. Glaciers are natural reservoirs that yield their resource primarily on warm dry summer days when other sources are at their lowest yield. This natural tempering of drought conditions will be reduced as they retreat.
Mount Baker, a volcano in the Cascades of Washington, is currently host to 12 principal glaciers with an area of 36.8 km2. The glaciers yield 125 million cubic meters of water each summer that is a resource for salmon, irrigation and hydropower to the Nooksack River and Baker River watersheds. Recent rapid retreat of all 22 glaciers is altering the runoff from the glaciers, impacting both the discharge and temperature of the Nooksack and Baker River. Over the last 30 years we have spent 270 nights camped on the mountain conducting 10,500 observations of snow depth and melt rate on Mount Baker. This data combined with observations of terminus change, area changeand glacier runoff over the same 30 years allow an unusually comprehensive story to be told of the effects of climate change to Mount Baker Glaciers and the rivers that drain them.

List of contents

Preface: Description of Living on these Glaciers.- Introduction: Overview of the Mount Baker region.- General climate.- Climate Trends of the last century.- Glacier response to climate: 1900-2014.- Field observations of glacier change: 1984-2014: Mass balance, terminus and area change.- Impact of runoff in Nooksack River.- Impact of runoff in Baker River.- Forecast of Glacier Future.

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This book presents the impact of climate change on Mount Baker glaciers, USA, and the rivers surrounding them. Glaciers are natural reservoirs that yield their resource primarily on warm dry summer days when other sources are at their lowest yield. This natural tempering of drought conditions will be reduced as they retreat.
Mount Baker, a volcano in the Cascades of Washington, is currently host to 12 principal glaciers with an area of 36.8 km2. The glaciers yield 125 million cubic meters of water each summer that is a resource for salmon, irrigation and hydropower to the Nooksack River and Baker River watersheds. Recent rapid retreat of all 22 glaciers is altering the runoff from the glaciers, impacting both the discharge and temperature of the Nooksack and Baker River. Over the last 30 years we have spent 270 nights camped on the mountain conducting 10,500 observations of snow depth and melt rate on Mount Baker. This data combined with observations of terminus change, area changeand glacier runoff over the same 30 years allow an unusually comprehensive story to be told of the effects of climate change to Mount Baker Glaciers and the rivers that drain them.

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“The text is readily accessible and well written in the main, and all chapters contain a huge volume of detail. … The material presented is reader-friendly, simplified yet thorough, well illustrated and informative, and it provides a sound baseline of evidence for recent environmental change and contemporary regimes. … readers ranging from the inquisitive layperson to the professional glaciologist with an interest in the recent glaciology of the Mount Baker region will find informative material contained within this book.” (Tristram Irvine-Fynn, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 36 (3), August, 2016)

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"The text is readily accessible and well written in the main, and all chapters contain a huge volume of detail. ... The material presented is reader-friendly, simplified yet thorough, well illustrated and informative, and it provides a sound baseline of evidence for recent environmental change and contemporary regimes. ... readers ranging from the inquisitive layperson to the professional glaciologist with an interest in the recent glaciology of the Mount Baker region will find informative material contained within this book." (Tristram Irvine-Fynn, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 36 (3), August, 2016)

Product details

Authors Mauri Pelto
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2015
 
EAN 9783319226040
ISBN 978-3-31-922604-0
No. of pages 107
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 6 mm
Weight 195 g
Illustrations X, 107 p. 101 illus., 64 illus. in color.
Series SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous

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