Sentences with phrase «years glacier runoff»

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

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The team found that, for the last 20 years, the glacier and ice cap mass loss has been exactly equal to the amount of meltwater runoff lost to the sea.

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).

Regular variation in the solid runoff of Antarctic glaciers with the period of 18.6 years is revealed as a result of long - term observations.

In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 28 billion gallons of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow.

In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 110 million m3 of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow (Pelto, 2008).

Although glaciers calving into the ocean cause much of the ice loss in Greenland, other research cited in the study shows that the majority of ice loss in recent years is from increased surface melt and runoff.