Canada1Water: 2023 Progress Report
Figure 1. Canada1Water project stages. The green background arrow indicates progress to date.
In June, 2023 stakeholders and the full team of collaborators on the Canada1Water project met to review continued progress toward our goal of providing Canadians with a comprehensive data/modelling framework and decision support system to evaluate the sustainability of water resources under a changing climate. The 2023 Progress Meeting and Summary Report provides a summary of this biannual progress meeting and an overview of project progress up to June 2023.
Canada1Water (C1W) co-lead Hazen Russell of the Geological Survey of Canada welcomed participants to the fourth C1W progress meeting, gave an overview of the project’s structure and team, and reiterated its overarching goal: to model the water cycle for continental Canada and Baffin Island including the atmosphere, land surface and subsurface. Co-lead Steven Frey of Aquanty summarized the latest progress. The main takeaways were:
The project is advancing as planned and remains on schedule.
Spin-up of C1W’s integrated, continental-scale hydrologic model is underway using Aquanty’s HydroGeoSphere (HGS) platform. Initial outputs are expected by the end of 2023.
The project is advancing the production of two versions of the C1W model — one coarse and the other at high resolution — to support the widest range of applications possible.
Read the full report for more detailed updates on the following project deliverables:
Climate and land surface modelling
Canada1Water dataset assembly
HydroGeoSphere model development and calibration
Development of the Canada1Water data portal
Communications, engagement and decision support
Next steps and upcoming work
Access the full report here.
“Canada1Water is a three-year research and development project to build the first-ever physics-based model of the complete water cycle for continental Canada, Baffin Island and transboundary watersheds with the U.S. The final modelling framework will give community decisionmakers, infrastructure planners, researchers, the public and other interested users a long-term view of how Canada’s water resources will change throughout the 21st century.”