Development of a Binational Flood Forecasting and Real-time Flood Plain

1 Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change iv Gap analysis between the current situation and the The various agencies (ECCC, MELCC and NOAA) need recommended system highlighted the fact that the only to maintain their current collaboration and readily required modelling improvements are ready, but still provide the necessary data to each other in other to require some work. [...] The WFOs have the responsibility between the two countries, each approach has proved to of publishing the forecasts and providing decision be effective and provides critical components of the support services immediately prior to and during flooding forecasting enterprise, and meaningful collaborations by providing watches, warnings and situational exist between the different agencies. [...] forecast inputs are better suited for shorter terms, Some simple combinations of models such as rating 3 The term “state variables” or “state” refers to a set of modeled values used to describe the current conditions on a modeled watershed such as the presence of snow on the ground, the soil moisture, the current water flow in the river network, etc. [...] Of course, the uncertainty associated with the hydrological forecasts affects the result, but so does the uncertainty of the model structure and the uncertainty of additional inputs used (e.g. [...] Improvements to flood forecasting in Lake Champlain Hence, while integrating the water balance model to and the Richelieu River will depend on improving the estimate the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu level from Lake accuracy of water level predictions in the lake and river.