Environment and Climate Change Canada this week released a report showing Canada is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. CTV Morning Live host Jeremy Dodge spoke with John Pomeroy, director of the Global Waters Initiative at the University of Saskatchewan, to get his thoughts on how the warming trend could change life in Saskatchewan.
New CH Publication in Journal of Hydrology
Constraining hydrological model parameters using water isotopic
compositions in a glacierized basin, Central Asia
Zhihua Hea, Katy Unger-Shayesteh, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Stephan M. Weise,
Olga Kalashnikova, Abror Gafurov, Doris Duethmann, Martina Barandun, Bruno Merz
Journal of Hydrology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.048
$1M to develop climate change strategy helps quench thirst for long-term Prairie water management plan
A $1-million federal budget commitment to develop a strategy for land and water management in the Prairies is being welcomed by members of the agriculture and research sectors.
Last week’s federal budget included funding for Western Economic Diversification Canada to come up with a plan to address climate change threats.
Read as Centre for Hydrology and Global Water Futures program director welcomes the decision to develop a federal strategy here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/prairie-water-strategy-federal-funding-1.5069138
As Calgarians eye melting rivers, experts say there are no big signs of flood
It’s become a natural part of spring in Calgary.
As the temperature soars and the snow melts, many Calgarians will to cast their eyes to the Bow and Elbow rivers — watching for any sign of rising water levels.
Read more as Centre for Hydrology Director, John Pomeroy, describes the indications and precursors of flooding events.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/melting-rivers-no-sign-of-calgary-flooding-1.5064266
Special Seminar with Dmitri Kavetski: Thursday, March 14, 2019 @ 12 pm CST
The Global Institute for Water Security, Centre for Hydrology and Global Water Future’s is pleased to host a special seminar by Dmitri Kavetski, Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Civil, Environmental, Computer and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. The presentation takes place on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 12:00 pm CST in the NHRC Seminar Room 1261. Dmitri’s presentation is entitled Advances and challenges in probabilistic hydrological modelling at the catchment scale.
Attached is a poster, please feel free to pass on this to others who think may be interested. For those of you who will not be in Saskatoon at this time, the lecture will be live streamed and viewable here – https://www.usask.ca/water/lecture-series/special-seminars.php.
New CH Publication in Canadian Water Resources
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
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