Regions: North Slave Region
Tags: physical sciences, hydrology, meteorology, wetlands, delta lakes, hydro-electric, runoff process
| Principal Investigator: | Mielko, Corrinne (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13587 |
| Organization: | McMaster University |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2004
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| Issued: | Apr 03, 2004 |
| Project Team: | field assi |
Objective(s): Lakes and wetlands in the Canadian Shield have important storage effects that greatly modify runoff generation from the basins. The project objective is to understand and quantify the hydrological processes operating at the basin scale in a boreal Shelf environment. Initial basin conditions will be established during spring melt. Subsequent decline in runoff production will be monitored at experimental plots and at the lake outlets. Water balance studies will be carried out over the field season. This will include; 1) measuring the rain magnitude throughout the basins using a network of rain gauges; 2) computing evaporation rates and total evaporation from the major landscapes in the basin through a Bowen ration energy balance approach calculated from data from three meteorological towers that will be installed in the basins; and 3) ground and lake storage changes obtained from a network of lake level recorders and water table wells that will be installed in the basin. Through this study, the researcher will be able to explain and quantify the processes that have application to water supply and hydroelectric power production in the Shield regions.
