university of saskatchewan – canadian hydrology, cryosphere

Mountain NCE Planning WorkshopJanuary 11-12, 2016

Thematic:Process studiesParameterization and Prediction at multiple scales> Focus on Canadian hydrology, Cryosphere

Infrastructure:• “WECC Observatories” patterned on and fortify nat’l, prov/terr. surface climate, hydrometric and terrestrial (f.ex. glacier, permafrost) observing systems

• Coldwater Laboratory at Bio-geosciences Institute, Barrier Lake, AB

• Cold Regions Hydrological Model (CRHM)

• NSERC-CCAR-Changing Cold Regions Network: http://ccrnetwork.ca/

• CCRN metadata browser: http://giws.usask.ca/meta

• Research Basins/study sites relevant to MNCE include: …

WECC = Water, Ecosystem, Cryosphere, Climate

The Core CCRN TeamThe CCRN research team consists of 42

university and federal scientists from eight Canadian universities and four federal

government departments. This inter-disciplinary team includes experimentalists, modellers, and analysts from atmospheric science, hydrology,

and ecology.

Activities of the Core Team are supported by a Science Steering Committee, Board of Directors,

International Advisory Panel and Secretariat

http://ccrnetwork.ca/organization/core-team.php