| Resource Name |
Review of hydrologic models for forest management and climate change applications in British Columbia and Alberta |
| Unique File Number |
370 |
| Information Type |
applied Research |
| Surface Water |
A |
| Aquatic Ecosystem |
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| Groundwater |
A |
| Groundwater & Surface Water |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards |
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| Strengths |
provides classification and summary of hydrologic models (surface water focus) used to examine landscape and cliamte change |
| Limitations |
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| Information Subtype |
hydrology |
| Organization |
FORREX |
| Resource Name |
Beckers, J., B. Smerdon, and M. Wilson. 2009. Review of hydrologic models for forest management and climate change applications in British Columbia and Alberta. forrex Forum for Research and Extension in Natural Resources, Kamloops, BC forrex Series 25. |
| Resource Purpose |
This report is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces 30 hydrologic models, summarizes the methodology and criteria used to review and describe the models and their applications, and discusses the underlying considerations for selecting and applying a model. Because of the volume of technical material reviewed, the hydrologic models and their applications are discussed and ranked in Appendix
1. The objective of this organization is to limit the length and technical content of the main report, thus emphasizing the decision-support aspect of model selection. Section 3 provides this decision support, including a step-wise approach to model selection, and an overview of the main advantages and disadvantages of the nine hydrologic models identified as being the most appropriate for answering forest management questions. Current barriers to the operational use of models in a forest management context are discussed in Section 4, while Section 5 researches the suitability of select models for exploring potential climate change effects on future watershed processes and outputs relevant to forest management. A summary of the main findings of this synthesis is provided in Section 6. |
| Type of Information |
report |
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| Program Status |
complete |
| NE Coverage |
international |
| Drinking Water |
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| Groundwater |
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| Public Safety |
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| SW Quality |
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| SW Quantity |
y |
| Link |
http://www.forrex.org/sites/default/files/forrex_series/FS25.pdf |
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