Collaborating actors (stakeholders, professionals, young professionals or Indigenous voices)
Suggested solution
Assessment of the challenge
- Need more data about the location of the community and their usage of water
- Split the challenge into a “glacier” and a down-stream challenge
- No up-to-date weather data available since 2011
- Discharge and temperature, rainfall and snow data available
- Digital elevation surface and terrain model available
Outline steps to a solution & status
- Inventory of the snow cover and watershed area (completed)
- Build a regression model using historical data to assess the relationship between snow melt, temperature and discharge (to do)
- HEC-RAS for flood modelling (to do)
- Use climate change projections to predict future discharge and flood extents (to do)
- Impact assessment: downstream impact analysis of hydro-power and agriculture in case needed (to do)
Requirements
Software
- HEC-RAS software: https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/
Data
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Digital Surface Model and Digital Terrain Model: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/957782bf-847c-4644-a757-e383c005…
Physical
- Weather station - if more detailed data are needed by the community
- Snow monitoring (snow depth sensor)
Relevant publications
Related space-based solutions
Keywords (for the solution)
Climate Zone (addressed by the solution)
Habitat (addressed by the solution)
Region/Country (the solution was designed for, if any)
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