PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this project is to provide the City of Edmonton with projections of the future climate at a municipal scale, that is, on a 3.3 km grid. We are using the WRF Regional Climate Model to...
PROJECT SUMMARY This project is investigating new opportunities for annual crop production by analyzing output from an upgraded version of the Agriculture Crop Adaptation Atlas and Database (AgCAAD), a crop suitability model developed by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AAF) to...
PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this project is to enhance agricultural producers’ capacity to successfully cope with climate change as it relates to agricultural water management, by incorporating climate change adaptations and strategies into the design and development of their...
PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this project is to build community capacity to deal effectively with hydrologic drought in the context of a changing climate and increase the capacity of watershed stewardship organizations to develop drought education and drought planning...
PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this major project is to evaluate climate change risks to industrial water supplies in the lower North Saskatchewan River Basin (NSRB) of east-central Saskatchewan. Achieving this objective requires knowledge of both the regional consequences of...
PROJECT SUMMARY The research problem addressed by this project is the security and resiliency of prairie industrial water supplies in a changing climate. This problem is significant because water-consumptive industries in the Prairie Provinces are a major contributor to the...
PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this project is to provide the industrial partner, EPCOR Utilities Inc., with projections of future climate and runoff in the North Saskatchewan River Basin (NSRB) that consider both natural variability and human caused climate change....
PROJECT SUMMARY Canada in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action is the national assessment of how the climate in Canada is changing, the impacts of these changes, and how we are adapting to reduce risk. A series of...
PROJECT SUMMARY The objective of this long-term NSERC-funded research program is to develop a better understanding of the nature and forcing of hydroclimatic variability of the past millennium in Canada’s western interior. In our tree-ring lab, we have established a...