Alberta Northern Basin Modelling Project

This project aims to enhance, recalibrate, validate, and operationalize the existing HydroGeoSphere (HGS) models for the Peace and Athabasca River Basin in northern Alberta to support near real-time, short-term, and seasonal hydrological forecasting. Both basins have been identified as priority due to recent multi-year droughts, changing snowpack and ice dynamics, reduced wetland and peatland storage, and increasing water-use pressures on communities, industry, and aquatic ecosystems. Unlike man