university of saskatchewan – canadian hydrology, cryosphere
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by Mike DemuthTRANSCRIPT
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