https://gwf.usask.ca/extremes

Provides new information on drought and precipitation extremes in a changing climate and environment for risk management and disaster warning. This project will provide new insights into the future occurrence of precipitation-related extremes including drought, intense precipitation events, and hazardous winter precipitation. Such extremes impact many sectors across Canada including -agriculture (such as through effects on food production and crop damage), -electrical utilities (such as through hydro power generation and transmission impacts), -engineering design (such as through improved estimation of return levels for extreme precipitation), -health (such as through impacts on water quality and water-borne diseases), and -insurance (with a backdrop of recent record-breaking payouts such as the Calgary flooding and the Fort McMurray wildfire).