The effect of glacier wastage on the flow of the Bow River at Banff, Alberta, 1951–1993

Glacier contribution to the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers

“…Working with a larger aggregate sample, however, benefits from the well-defined mean for the scaling constant and the randomly distributed error characteristic of Bahr et al's original v-a regression. Like Hopkinson and Young (1998) and Debeer and Sharp (2007), Demuth et al's choice of scaling constant was consistent with that for glaciers of similar size and climatic setting. All of these studies predicted the aggregate uncertainty by varying the range of the scaling parameters according to setting and physical factors.…”

“…These previously published results are similar to the Mistaya River (gauge DA007) annual wastage contribution of 7Ð8% from 1975-1998 calculated by the v-a method (Table II). In addition, Hopkinson and Young (1998) calculated glacier wastage as 3Ð3% of the flow at the Bow River at Banff from 1975Banff from -1993. This is similar to the 2Ð2% average contribution from resulting from this study, as expected because the same v-a relationship was used in both calculations.…”

VISCOUS: A Variance‐Based Sensitivity Analysis Using Copulas for Efficient Identification of Dominant Hydrological Processes

“…In cold or mountainous regions, such as the Bow River where its headwaters are in the glaciated eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, snow melting and release of water from glacier storage greatly contribute to streamflow generation as opposed to rainfall. For example, Hopkinson and Young (1998) reported that the glacial contributions to streamflow in extremely dry years can be responsible for up to 50% of the late‐summer flow in the Bow River at Banff. A significant contribution of these parameters to simulation of the streamflow can be attributed to the fact that K slow in VIC and K2 in HBV are responsible for the basin storage and timing of the release for getting the recession limb of the hydrograph correctly.…”

Characterising the Hydrology and Water Resources of a Regulated Cold‐Regions River Basin Using a Land Surface Hydrological Model

“…Glacier tiles were included in the Canadian Rockies ecozone due to the relatively large role they play in the headwaters water budget of the basin (Hopkinson and Young 1998; Comeau et al. 2009; Marshall et al.…”