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Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources
Mauri Pelto
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Description for Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies. Num Pages: 117 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, 64 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RBGD; RBK; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 197.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
117
Condition
New
Series
SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
Number of Pages
107
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319226040
SKU
V9783319226040
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources
"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 ... Read more