Streamflow Gauge Station Data in the Lake Erie Watershed Including Lake St. Clair

The Great Lakes Runoff Inter-comparison Project (GRIP) includes a wide range of lumped and distributed models that are used operationally and/or for research purposes across Canada and the United States. Participating models are Global Environmental Multi-scale (GEM- Hydro), Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-Hydro), MEC-Surface & Hydrology (MESH), Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC), WATFLOOD, HYdrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE), Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Large Basin Runoff Model (LBRM). The project aims to run all these models over several regions in Canada with Great Lakes, focusing on Lake Erie and Lake St.Clair as the initial domain (GRIP-E). This project will also focus on identifying a standard, consistent dataset for model building that all participants in the inter-comparison project can access and then process to generate their model-specific required inputs.

This data set is collected for the project titled "Integrated Modelling Program for Canada (IMPC): Theme 1", which is a Pillar 3 project under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

Daily stream flow for twenty eight (28) locations near the Great Lakes watershed were retrieved from the Hydrometric Data (HYDAT) database. Access to this database was given by the Water Survey of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (WSC-ECCC) and can be found at https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/quantity/monitoring/survey/data-products-services/national-archive-hydat.html . The Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MOECP) provided the Provincial Water Quality Monitoring Network (PWQMN) data.

Tolson, B., Mai, J., Abrahamowicz, M., Awoye, H., Dimitrijevic, M., Durnford, D., FitzGerald, K., Fry, L., Gaborit, É., Gasset, N., Gharari, S., Gronewold, D., Haghnegahdar, A., Hamlet, A., Hunter, T., Jenkinson, W., Lan Shin, Y., Mason, L., Ni, X., Pietroniro, A., Princz, D., Razavi, S., Read, L., Sampson, K., Seglenieks, F., Shen, H., Smith, J., Stadnyk, T., & Yongping, Y. (2019). Stream Flow Data Near Great Lakes. Waterloo, Canada: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN). (Unpublished Data).

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