Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Presentation Outline
A Short History of the IJC
The IJCs International Watersheds Initiative and Water
Quality Modelling
Nutrient Enrichment and Eutrophication in the RedAssiniboine River Basin
The SPARROW Water Quality Model
Red-Assiniboine Model Output and the Mapper (Online
Tool)
Whats Next for Red-Assiniboine SPARROW Modelling?
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Hydraulic
Hydrologic
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Water
Quality
Ecological
Data Harmonization
Souris River Basin (ND, MB, SK)
Harmonized Basin and
Sub-basins
Gauges
Pre-harmonization
(NHN-NHD)
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SPARROW
Area
Spatially-Referenced
SPARROW Regressions on
Watershed attributes
GWLF
(km2)
GWLF
Generalized Watershed
Loading Function
SWAT
HSPF
Hydrology Simulation
Program-FORTRAN
SWAT
HSPF
<1
Hourly
Time
Yearly
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Pelican Lake,
Pembina River
watershed
Buffalo Red
watershed
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Eutrophication
A Water Quality Issue Across the Transboundary
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Contributors
Environment Canada
Statistics Canada
Stream network
Model
Development
Sources
Land-to-water delivery
Total nitrogen
Coefficient
P value
0.011
0.003
Point Sources
1.000
6.016
0.033
0.070
0.040
Precipitation
0.070
0.000
Reservoirs
5.734
0.029
Land-to-Water Delivery
Decay
Model Statistics
RMSE
0.489
Adj r2
0.915
Yield R2
0.815
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Coefficient
P value
0.032
0.004
Point Sources
1.000
Atmosphere
0.032
Precipitation
0.014
0.000
Air Temperature
-0.573
0.000
0.046
0.393
Reservoirs
1.809
0.151
Land-to-Water Delivery
Decay
Model Statistics
RMSE
0.44
Adj R2
0.93
Yield R2
0.876
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Sources of nitrogen
(%)
19
Winnipeg R: Rainy
R and Lake of the
Woods
Great Lakes
Model
Lake Winnipeg Basin
2016-08-05
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