Improving and testing the prairie hydrological model at Smith Creek Research Basin /

Research at the University of Saskatchewan and Environment Canada has resulted in the development of the Cold Regions Hydrological Modelling Platform (CRHM) (Pomeroy et al., 2007a) which is a physically based, spatially distributed, modular object-oriented model development system. The component modules have been developed based on the results of over 50 years of research in prairie, boreal, mountain and arctic environments. The main purpose of this study is to use CRHM to further develop the Prairie Hydrological Model (PHM) from its initial formulation (Pomeroy et al., 2010) so that it can more realistically describe the hydrology of wetland complexes including drained wetlands and to evaluate PHM on multiple years of high quality hydrological data from Smith Creek Research Basin, Saskatchewan.