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Proxy versus Modelled Hydrology, Saskatchewan and Athabasca River Basins

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When:
11:30, Wednesday 29 Jun 2022 (15 minutes)
Where:
Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

In western Canada, internal natural variability is the dominant source of uncertainty for the climate model projection of precipitation and related variables. Tree-ring records capture this natural variability and also enable testing of the capacity of climate models to simulate significant modes of variability. We compare millennial tree-ring reconstructions of the weekly flows of the Athabasca and North Saskatchewan Rivers to weekly flows from a hydrological model forced with climatology from various runs of CMIP6 Earth System Models. Relative to the proxy streamflow time series, the climate / hydrological models have a high-frequency bias and underestimate decadal scale hydroclimatic variability. Inter-annual to decadal variability represent more of challenge for water resource management than incremental slow-onset changes in water yield resulting from the regional impacts of global climate change.
 

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