Advances in Hydrologic Modelling for Impact Assessment
Speaker(s)
This conference will be in English
Hydrologic models are necessary components of climate impact assessments – they are used to propagate climate forecasts into estimates of runoff, streamflow, flood inundation extents, reservoir levels, river freeze-up, and stream temperature.
This talk will provide an overview of recent advances in the open-source Raven hydrologic modelling framework and related tools to support both climate and land use change impact assessment in natural and managed watersheds.
Prof. Craig will discuss challenges associated with simulating managed systems, mapping climate model outputs to hydrologic model inputs, and interpreting climate impact predictions from hydrologic models.
Learning objectives
gain an appreciation of some challenges with informing hydrology models with climate predictions
become acquainted with new advances within the Raven hydrological modelling framework
Speaker
James Craig, Ph.D P.Eng., Professor and Canada Research Chair in Hydrologic Modelling and Analysis, University of Waterloo
Prof. Craig is a professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo and holds a Canada Research Chair in hydrologic modelling and analysis. He is lead author of the Raven hydrological modelling framework, a software tool used for watershed simulation and operational forecasting across Canada. His research focuses on the development and application of improved modelling algorithms, strategies, methods, and datasets.
