Principles of Hydrologic Modelling

Offered annually. We are excited to announce that this year’s course will be offered in Montreal (in French) in the summer of 2023. Details and dates will be announced shortly.

http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/jrcraig/CSHS_modelling_course.html

This course addresses the development of computational models of watershed hydrology in support of water resources management and scientific investigation. The full model development and application cycle is considered: pre-processing, understanding, and generating input forcing data; system discretization and algorithms for simulating hydrologic processes; parameter estimation; and interpreting model output in the context of often significant system uncertainty. The course will include practical applications of models to alpine, boreal forest, prairie, and agricultural settings in Canada. Students will be exposed to a number of useful hydrological modelling software tools, including R, Ostrich, Raven, and CRHM. Hydrologic modelling practitioners will present both complex and simple modelling case studies demonstrating the challenges confronted in real-world modelling applications.