Discussion of “Flow‐characteristics of glacier‐fed and snow‐fed streams”

Abstract

F. C. Scobey inquired about the feasibility of creating artificial glaciers by spreading the streams at the time of freezing. This was not considered advisable by J. E. Church due to the low runoff in the streams of California at such a time. Some of the streams, it was explained, dropped to five per cent of runoff for the freezing period. G. D. Clyde mentioned the same difficulty in Utah. There it is a problem to keep the transport‐canals now in use open during the winter due to lack of flow. Mr. Clyde had also had experience with attempts to create artificial glaciers as a means of water‐storage by precipitating snowslides. These attempts were unsuccessful.