| Titre | Enhancing flood and drought forecasting tools in the South Nation River Watershed |
| Télécharger | Téléchargement (publication entière) |
| Auteur | Melaney, M; Frey, S |
| Source | Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house; par Russell, H A J; Ford, D;
Priebe, E H; Holysh, S; Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 8363, 2018 p. 26, https://doi.org/10.4095/306552 (Accès ouvert) |
| Année | 2018 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Réunion | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: Open House; Guelph; CA; février 28 - mars 1, 2018 |
| Document | dossier public |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/306552 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans Russell, H A
J; Ford, D; Priebe, E H; Holysh, S; (2018). Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house, Commission géologique du Canada,
Dossier public 8363 |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| SNRC | 31B/12; 31B/13; 31B/14; 31G/02; 31G/03; 31G/04; 31G/05; 31G/06; 31G/07; 31G/10; 31G/11 |
| Lat/Long OENS | -76.0000 -74.5000 45.7500 44.6167 |
| Sujets | eaux de surface; rivières; bassins versants; gestion des ressources; aménagement régional; climat; inondations; simulations par ordinateur; milieu hydrologique; établissement de modèles; météorologie;
précipitation; sols; humidité du sol; eaux de ruissellement; changement climatique; sécheresse; atténuation; prévision; hydrogéologie; géologie de l'environnement; géologie des dépôts meubles/géomorphologie; Nature et environnement |
| Programme | Géoscience des eaux souterraines, Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Diffusé | 2018 02 16 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
With climate change, managing the variability in changing watershed conditions, from floods to droughts, is a challenge. Having the necessary information, in a
timely manner, is critical for proper planning and implementing mitigating measures.
South Nation Conservation's (SNC) recent project with IBM and Aquanty, the development of a data-assimilation and hydrological simulation platform, aims to
improve short term (1 - 14 d) forecasting of flooding and droughts. The project will construct a real-time hydrologic model for South Nation Watershed. This fully integrated 3-dimensional groundwater - surface water model is dynamically coupled to
state-of-the-art high resolution (4000 m) short-term weather forecasts (provided by IBM's Weather Company) and real-time field sensors throughout the Watershed.
The model will enhance SNC's Flood Forecasting and Warning and Low Water Response
programs with more accurate forecasts; utilizing over 200 local weather data points (compared to the previous 3 Environment Canada stations) to capture the diversity of weather patterns across the Watershed. The new real-time sensors to collect
precipitation (rain and snow) and soil moisture will allow the model to better predict how forecasted weather events will impact watershed conditions. For example, is a significant rainfall event more likely to runoff into nearby watercourses or soak
into the ground.
Beyond its direct application to the South Nation Watershed, this project will provide a proof-of-concept demonstration of how the latest in weather forecasting and hydrologic modelling technologies can support water resources
management under increasingly variable climate/weather conditions. It is anticipated that this project will provide far-reaching benefit to SNC, local producers, municipalities, and rural landowners throughout the region
This project was made
possible with funding support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 306552 |
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