River Flow Forecast

Clients 

Direction de l’Expertise Hydrique (DEH) (water expertise department) from the Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte aux Changements Climatiques du Québec (MELCC)  

Ministry of the Environment and local governments (New Brunswick)

Collaborators 

University of Sherbrooke

University of Moncton

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre

Funding

NOVA — NSERC/FRQNT NOVA program for early career researchers from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et Technologies and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada  

Description 

This goal of this research project was to improve the knowledge of river flow rates, specifically ungauged rivers. The CGQ contributed cartography and wetlands characterization with satellite remote sensing data. This information was then integrated into the existing hydrological models. Wetlands play an important role in flow regularization. With a constantly changing climate, it is all the more important to better understand these environments’ hydrological processes and to develop methods for their monitoring and to improve their modelling.

Fields 

Resource management

Environmental monitoring