By Mauri Pelto
This booklet provides the effect of weather swap on Mount Baker glaciers, united states, and the rivers surrounding them. Glaciers are normal reservoirs that yield their source totally on hot dry summer season days whilst different resources are at their lowest yield. This common tempering of drought stipulations can be decreased as they retreat.
Mount Baker, a volcano within the Cascades of Washington, is presently host to twelve valuable glaciers with a space of 36.8 km2. The glaciers yield a hundred twenty five million cubic meters of water each one summer season that could be a source for salmon, irrigation and hydropower to the Nooksack River and Baker River watersheds. fresh fast retreat of all 22 glaciers is changing the runoff from the glaciers, impacting either the release and temperature of the Nooksack and Baker River. over the past 30 years we've got spent 270 nights camped at the mountain engaging in 10,500 observations of snow intensity and soften expense on Mount Baker. this information mixed with observations of terminus swap, sector swap and glacier runoff over a similar 30 years enable an strangely finished tale to learn of the consequences of weather switch to Mount Baker Glaciers and the rivers that drain them.
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1 Sholes Glacier The extent of snowcover is measured directly on the glacier in early August and again in late September. On July 13, 2014 the Mount Baker glaciers were 100 % snowcovered (Fig. 15). 7 Glacier Mass Balance 2014 39 Fig. 15 July 13th, 2014 Landsat satellite image indicating 100 % snowcover on Sholes Glacier Fig. 16 Sholes Glacier snowpack extent on Sept. 15, 2014. The glacier boundary is in yellow, red dots are the snowline Sholes Glacier is still 87 % snowcovered. On Aug. 11th our surface measurements indicated a blue ice area of 125,000 m2.