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Author : Church, M.; and Kellerhals, M.
Date : 1980
Title : On hydrological data needs in Canada
Publication : Canadian Water Resources Journal
Issue : 6(2):
Page(s) : 109-132
Abstract
Concern is expressed that the data available for making decisions regarding management of Canadian water resources is not sufficient for the need. The range of information readily available in the national hydrological data base should be developed considerably. Conventional records of levels, flows, and water quality should be extended both geographically and temporally. How this is to be achieved offers considerable thought. Three substantial innovations are offered. First, analyses of hydrological data should be considerably extended and convenient means should be developed for presenting the results. Second, field procedures should be substantially modified to permit more efficient collection of data of several types, and to take advantage of technical advances in measurement. Third, the types of data collected should be expanded to include information on ice regime, river morphology and biophysical processes. Two direct benefits would accrue from these changes. First, a range of hydrobiological analyses would become available in standard form. Second, the assembly of data on river morphology and history and on biophysical processes would permit better decisions to be made about complex aspects of river management that are not eaily reducible to terms involving only actual or desirable flow magnitudes.
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