Select regulated reservoir data in the Arctic drainage basin

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Overview Research Site Status and Provenance Access and Downloads

Name of Research Project

Related Project	Part
Core Modelling and Forecasting Team	WRM

Dataset Title

Select regulated reservoir data in the Arctic drainage basin

Additional Information

GeoNetwork record: www.gwfnet.net/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1d20e7a1-ac8e-40fd-82be-59e977502f5b

Creators and Contributors

Name	Role	Email	Institution
Andrew Tefs	Originator	andrew.tefs@ucalgary.ca	University of Calgary
Tricia Stadnyk	Collaborator		University of Calgary

Abstract

In order to study the historic operations of regulated waterbodies and to predict future conditions (outflow from lakes and level of reservoir), we collect streamflow and water level data for regulated lakes and waterbodies throughout the Arctic drainage basin. This dataset contains historic, measured timeseries for discrete locations describing key hydrometric variables (inflow, outflow, and reservoir levels) for regulated waterbodies throughout the Arctic drainage basin (primarily Nelson, Churchill, Moose, Albany, Yukon, Yenisey, Ob, and Lena rivers). These data are collected from open-source (governmental and non-governmental) organizations and used with acknowledgement.

Purpose

The purpose is to develop a reservoir module that will work with any hydrological models and land surface schemes. As part of this work, reservoir data from dozens of reservoirs across the Arctic drainage basin was collected. This project supports the Water Resources Management theme of the Core Modelling and Forecasting Team.

Keywords

Keyword
hydrology
hydroelectric reservoir
streamflow
lakes
modelling

Temporal Extent

Begin Date	End Date
1971-01-01	2018-12-31

Geographic Bounding Box

West Boundary Longitude	-180
East Boundary Longitude	180
North Boundary Latitude	85
South Boundary Latitude	40

Is Boundary Rectangular

○ Yes

◉ No

Research Site Description (if needed)

Arctic Ocean Drainage Basin

Research Site Location

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Does the data have access restrictions?

▣ No restriction (data is currently open to public)

◻ Limited (data is currently under embargo until publication)

◻ Limited (data involves intellectual property issues related to local or traditional knowledge)

◻ Limited (release of data may cause harm to the environment or to the public)

◻ Limited (pre-existing data has been used and is subject to access restrictions)

◻ Limited (data involves human subjects)

◻ Limited (data is supported by industry partnerships)

◻ Limited (data is supported by government partnerships)

Download Links and Instructions

Contact Andrew Tefs (andrew.tefs@uclgary.ca)

Data Sources:
-Water Survey of Canada (WSC). (2020). Water Survey of Canada. Ottawa: Environment Canada available at: https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/historical_data_index_e.html
-Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC). (2020). Monthly data of the 560 stations Arctic‐HYCOS basic network available at: https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/04_spcldtbss/41_ARDB/ArcticHYCOSData.html?nn=201698
-United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS). (2020). Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor (G-REALM). United States Department of Agriculture's. available at: https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/

Total Size of all Dataset Files (GB)

0.2

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List of Parameters and Variables

Parameter/Variable	Unit	Frequency	Source
streamflow	m3/s	daily	Water Survey of Canada (WSC). (2020). Water Survey of Canada. Ottawa: Environment Canada available at: https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/historical_data_index_e.html
streamflow	m3/s	daily	Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC). (2020). Monthly data of the 560 stations Arctic‐HYCOS basic network available at: https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/04_spcldtbss/41_ARDB/ArcticHYCOSData.html?nn=201698
reservoir level	m	daily	Water Survey of Canada (WSC). (2020). Water Survey of Canada. Ottawa: Environment Canada available at: https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/historical_data_index_e.html
reservoir level	m	10-day	United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS). (2020). Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor (G-REALM). United States Department of Agriculture's. available at: https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/