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Author : Friddell, J.; and Pomeroy, J.
Date : 2007.
Title : The IP3 Research Network: Improved processes and parameterisation for prediction in cold regions.
Publication : CMOS, CGU, AMS Congress 2007. "Air, Ocean, Earth and Ice on the Rock". May 28 - June 1, 2007. St. John's Congress Centre, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Issue :
Page(s) : I11-4C1 .1
Abstract
IP3 is a Canada-wide research Network devoted to enhanced understanding of surface water and weather systems in cold regions, particularly Canada's Rocky Mountains and western Arctic. The Network has been funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences for 2006-2010. Through improved understanding and parameterisation of hydrological, hydrometeorological, and climatic processes in cold regions, IP3 will make contributions to better weather and climate prediction at regional and smaller scales, estimation of streamflow from ungauged basins, prediction of changes in Rocky Mountain snow and water supplies, calculation of freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean, and sustainable management of mountain and northern water resources. These issues are of key importance to agriculture and urban and industrial development in the Canadian Prairies and northwest.This work is being accomplished through intense field data collection along a transect of high latitude (Arctic) and high altitude (Rockies) instrumented research basins that characterize Canada’s cold regions. Field observations focus on mass and energy fluxes of snowpacks, glaciers, open water, vegetation, and runoff generation processes over frozen ground. The collected data will be used to improve parameterisation of these cryospheric processes for incorporation into process hydrology and coupled land surface – hydrology models. The improved models will then be used to simulate water resources, near-surface atmospheric fluxes, and weather and climate in cold regions, at scales that are useful to various public and private sectors that require water- and weather-predictive capabilities for their operation. The models’ performance will be evaluated at the IP3 research basins and in larger regional domains. Both the field data and model outputs will be archived into a database that will be available to Network collaborators and eventually to the public.
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