Sentences with phrase «summer glacier runoff»

The result is less late summer glacier runoff.

Even worse, loss of summer glacier runoff will mean a collapse of rice and wheat agriculture in the northwest of the country as Himalayan glaciers continue to melt (current estimates are as high as 80 % loss within 30 years, and runoff is already in decline).

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As glaciers expanded, spring and summer runoff poured nutrients into the coastal ocean, fueling explosive growth in krill and small animals the whales consumed, they speculate.

Thus, glacier retreat leads to an increase in spring runoff and a decline in summer runoff.

Unlike non-glacier runoff, glacier runoff correlates better with temperature than precipitation, due to the dominant role of glacier melt compared to precipitation in summer runoff from glacierized basins.

Glaciers alone provide 750 million m3 of runoff each summer (Fountain and Tangborn, 1985).

In the long run glacier retreat simply results in the reduction of runoff in the summer, when other runoff sources are also depleted.

This loss in melt extent is reducing glacier runoff and summer alpine streamflow.

In dry years glacier runoff constitutes most of later summer inflows to several large reservoirs.

Annual glacier runoff is highest in warm, dry summers and lowest during wet, cool summers, further providing a balance to summer runoff (Fountain and Tangborn, 1985; Hock et al., 2005).

As a glacier retreats its area available for melting declines and so does glacier runoff in the summer.