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Citation Station Hydrologic Model Output. Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium.
Organization PCIC
URL https://pacificclimate.org/data/station-hydrologic-model-output
Abstract/Description or Keywords The Station Hydrologic Model Output page provides access to simulated streamflow data for locations throughout British Columbia, Canada. The streamflow data were simulated using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model (Liang et al. 1994, 1996). The simulations are generated by forcing the VIC model using statistically downscaled global climate model (GCM) projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3; Meehl et al. 2007) driven by a range of future emission specified by three separate scenarios (A1B, A2 and B1) from the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES; Nakicenovic et al. 2000). Also included is historical data generated by running the VIC model with interpolated observed climate data.

The simulated data includes daily streamflow time series for over 120 sites located in the Peace, upper Columbia, Fraser and Campbell River watersheds. The streamflow sites correspond to Water Survey of Canada gauge locations and BC Hydro project sites. The simulated data represents naturalized flow conditions (i.e. with effects of upstream regulation removed) for those sites affected by storage regulation. The hydrologic projections were forced with GCM data downscaled to a 1/16-degree resolution using Bias-Correction Spatial Disaggregation (BCSD) (Wood et al. 2004) following Werner (2011). Application of the VIC model and the generation of hydrologic projections for the Peace, Fraser, upper Columbia and Campbell River watersheds are described in Shrestha et al. (2012) and Schnorbus et al. (2011, 2014).

Access and download Station Hydrologic Model Output.

The user interface features an interactive map of the province that allows users to zoom, pan and select their region of interest using a rectangular selection tool. In order to download the hydrologic data, users are required to log-in to the page using an OpenID (link is external) account. See below for a brief description, notes on citation, references and the terms of use.
Information Type data, mapping
Regional Watershed Province
Sub-watershed if known
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Project status ongoing
Contact Name PCIC
Contact Email https://pacificclimate.org/contact-us