Studies & research
Lower cost, high quality wind measurement campaigns for Africa
- Amount :
- 140500 - Agence internationale pour les énergies renouvelables (IRENA)
- Start date :
- January 2016
- End date :
- January 2016
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Taha Ouarda,
Taha Ouarda
Modélisation et prévision de la variabilité spatio-temporelle de la sédimentation dans la voie navigable du fleuve Saint-Laurent
- Amount :
- 19996 - Garde côtière canadienne
- Start date :
- January 2017
- End date :
- January 2018
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Taha Ouarda,
Taha Ouarda
Mountain Water Futures
- Amount :
- 1725333 - Apogée Canada (Global Water Futures - Pillar 3)
- Start date :
- January 2017
- End date :
- January 2020
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Julie Thériault,
Julie Thériault
NSERC Industrial Research Chair on the Application of Hydrometeorological Data from Satellite Images To Improve Hydrological Forecasting
- Amount :
- 1650000 - Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie [CRSNG]
Hydro-Québec
Ville de Sherbrooke
Énergie Brookfield Marketing S.E.C
- Start date :
- January 2017
- End date :
- December 2021
- Associated axes :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 1: Integrated quantity and quality simulations
- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearcher involved :
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Robert Leconte
- Description :
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The goals of providing protection from floods and mitigating their impacts have become increasingly important over the past few decades, both in Canada and elsewhere in the world, especially because of climate change. To achieve these goals, hydrological forecasting must be improved. Although some advances have been made in this regard, thus far, the information available from satellite images has been put to very little use in predicting water flows into rivers and streams. And yet, the images captured by satellites offer an opportunity to monitor water resources over very large geographic areas.
The primary objective of this research chair is to acquire knowledge and develop approaches and tools for modelling to optimize the use of existing hydrometeorological information, with an emphasis on information obtained from satellite sensors, so as to improve the forecasting of water flows over the short and medium terms.
The proposed research program will focus on the following two main research areas, within which various research specific projects will be carried out:
Evaluating the ways in which hydrometeorological products obtained from satellite sensors (for example, on the extent and thickness of snow cover) can be used to improve hydrological forecasting;
Optimizing the linkages between spatialized hydrometeorological data and hydrological models for forecasting flows.
Hydrological modelling and forecasting, evaluation and improvement of satellite products on soil moisture, snow, and bodies of water, and integration of these data into forecasting models will all be central to the Chair’s research.
The Chair’s research will enable its industry partners to acquire high-performance tools that will let them forecast floods more accurately and protect themselves against flood impacts more effectively. The various stakeholders in water-resource management will also benefit from the Chair’s research. Lastly, the Chair will train highly qualified personnel in the field of water-resource engineering, which is of key importance to the Canadian economy.
Observation, modélisation et prédiction des précipitations extrêmes dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent
- Amount :
- 162000 - Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT)
- Start date :
- January 2018
- End date :
- January 2021
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Julie Thériault,
Julie Thériault
Opérationalisation de la prise de décision par apprentissage par renforcement en contexte de gestion hydroélectrique d’ensemble
- Amount :
- 55000 - Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT)
- Start date :
- January 2019
- End date :
- January 2021
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Richard Arsenault,
Richard Arsenault
PAVICS-Hydro2 : Advanced Forecasting and Hydrological Modelling Research Platform
- Amount :
- 250000 - CANARIE
- Start date :
- January 2020
- End date :
- January 2023
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Richard Arsenault,
Richard Arsenault
Physical hydrology laboratory,
- Amount :
- 10743 - École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) (Soutien aux infrastructures de recherche et d'innovation (PSOv4))
- Start date :
- September 2019
- End date :
- April 2021
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Richard Arsenault,
Annie Poulin,
Michel Baraër
Portrait climatique régional en climat de référence et futur en soutien à l’analyse des impacts et de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques sur le territoire Eeyou lstchee Baie-James, du nord de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue et du Nunavik
- Amount :
- 24963 - Ministère des Transports
- Start date :
- January 2019
- End date :
- January 2019
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Alain Mailhot,
Alain Mailhot
Power Analytics for Visualization of Climate Science (PAVICS) - Hydroclimatological toolbox
- Amount :
- 225000 - CANARIE
- Start date :
- January 2018
- End date :
- January 2018
- Associated axis :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Reasearchers involved :
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Richard Arsenault,
Richard Arsenault
