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South Cascade Glacier,
Oct. 5, 2000.
Photo by Bob Krimmel. (click on image for enlargement, 187 KB.) |
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates a long-term program to monitor climate,
glacier motion, glacier mass balance, and stream runoff. The data collected are used to
understand glacier-related hydrologic processes and improve the quantitative prediction of
water resources, glacier-related hazards, and the consequences of climate change (Fountain and others, 1997). The approach has been
to establish long-term mass balance monitoring programs at three widely spaced glacier
basins in the United States that clearly sample different climate-glacier-runoff regimes.
Gulkana Glacier is one of these three long-term, high quality mass balance monitoring
sites operated by the USGS. The other monitoring sites are Gulkana
Glacier and Wolverine Glacier
in Alaska.
See 3-glacier summaries for annual
mass balance,
runoff, and
air temperature graphs and data.
If you have Google Earth
installed, load view of South Cascade Glacier
here)
See the Washington Water Science Center Glaciers and Snowpack Project
page for more information here
http://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/glacier/
Maintainer: Robert Krimmel
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