Implications of stubble management on snow hydrology and meltwater partitioning
Phillip Harder, John W. Pomeroy & Warren D. Helgason
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques,
DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2019.1575774
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New CH Publication in AMS
Impact of Future Climate and Vegetation on the Hydrology of an Arctic Headwater Basin at the Tundra–Taiga Transition
Sebastian A. Krogh and John W. Pomeroy
Journal of Hydrometeorology,20(2), 197-215.
New CH Publication in the Science of The Total Environment
Preferential meltwater flowpaths as a driver of preferential elution of chemicals from melting snowpacks
Diogo Costa, John W. Pomeroy
Science of The Total Environment, 662, 110-120.
USask-led Global Water Futures gets U.N. recognition
The USask-led Global Water Futures has been designated as one of only three Regional Hydroclimate Projects (RHP) in the world by the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges) project of the United Nations World Climate Research Programme.
Read more here.
New CH Publication in Earth System Science Data
A long-term hydrometeorological dataset of a northern mountain basin
Kabir Rasouli, John W. Pomeroy, J. Richard Janowicz, Tyler J. Williams,and Sean K. Carey
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 89-100, 2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-89-2019
USask study says more snow, earlier melt will challenge Arctic communities in future
Centre for Hydrology Director, John Pomeroy (left) and past student Sebastian Krogh (right).
University of Saskatchewan researchers with the Global Water Futures (GWF) program have provided the first detailed projections of major water challenges facing Western Arctic communities such as Inuvik and transportation corridors such as the Dempster Highway by the end of this century.
“There will be a tipping point reached over the next few decades, putting at risk communities whose infrastructure was designed for 20th century climate and hydrology,” said Dr. John Pomeroy (PhD), senior author of a recent paper in the American Meteorological Society’s prestigious Journal of Hydrometeorology.
“Humanity has to act quickly and decisively to avert such a future, and that will involve reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and improving infrastructure to better withstand the extreme events that are coming,” said Pomeroy, director of the USask Centre for Hydrology and director of the USask-led GWF, the largest freshwater research program in the world.
Wildfire soot darkening glaciers could speed up melt rate, scientists fear
Centre for Hydrology director, John Pomeroy, voices his concerns that smoke and soot from nearby wildfires may be contributing to a faster melt rate on western Canadian glaciers in a recent CBC article.
Read more: Wildfire soot darkening glaciers could speed up melt rate, scientists fear
Centre for Hydrology student wins Cryosphere Student Innovation Award from AGU at the Washington DC Fall Meeting
Congratulations to Caroline Aubry-Wake who won a Cryosphere Student Innovation Award from the American Geophysical Union at its Fall Meeting in Washington DC last week. The $1000 USD prize was for her proposal of an innovative method to determine debris cover thickness on glaciers. Great work Caroline!
Caroline Aubry-Wake, the winner of the Cryosphere Student Innovation Award, conducting fieldwork.
U of S & Natural Resources Canada Sign 5-Year MOU
At a ceremony last month, the University of Saskatchewan and Natural Resources Canada signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the country’s commitment to manage its freshwater resources.
U of S Professor John Pomeroy is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, Director of the Centre for Hydrology at the U of S, and the Director of the USask-led Global Water Futures Program, which is the world’s largest university-led freshwater research program.
To read more visit: https://discovermoosejaw.com/local/u-of-s-natural-resources-canada-sign-5-year-mou
New paper shows causes of mountain river low flows and risks from climate warming.
Centre for Hydrology Senior Research Fellow Paul Whitfield has published a paper in Water Resources Research that shows precipitation is the dominant control on total annual streamflow and on the duration and severity of low flows in mountain rivers. However, mountain low flows are up to 2 times more sensitive than annual streamflow to temperature fluctuations and are very sensitive to winter temperatures above 0 °C as these conditions result in low snowpacks. Climate warming in these mountain catchments may cause more intense and longer low flow periods.