A catchment-based lake and river routing product for hydrologic and land surface models in Canada
Creators
- 1. University of Waterloo
- 2. Environment and Climate Change Canada
Description
This catchment-based lake and river routing product combines catchment polygons from the HydroBASINS product (Lehner and Grill, 2013) and lakes from the HydroLAKES product (Messager et al., 2016) to obtain pan-Canadian routing products that consider lakes. In total, ten routing products are developed within this work, using five watershed delineations (HydroBASINS product from level 8 to level 12) and two lake-selection strategies (all lakes in HydroLAKES and only lakes with an area larger than 1 km2). All routing products cover all of Canada. This catchment-based lake and river routing product combines catchment polygons from the HydroBASINS product (Lehner and Grill, 2013) and lakes from the HydroLAKES product (Messager et al., 2016) to obtain pan-Canadian routing products that consider lakes. In total, ten routing products are developed within this work, using five watershed delineations (HydroBASINS product from level 8 to level 12) and two lake-selection strategies (all lakes in HydroLAKES and only lakes with an area larger than 1 km2). All routing products cover all of Canada.
Please refer to the "Readme routing projects.pdf" for a more detailed description of the routing products as well as the introduction of an example. The example files can be found in "Example.zip" while the actual routing products are available in "Routing_product.zip".
The dataset is described in the following publication. Anyone downloading and using this data should cite both the Zenodo doi and the paper.:
Han, M., Mai, J., Tolson, B. A., Craig, J. R., Gaborit, É., Liu, H., & Lee, K. (2020). Subwatershed-based lake and river routing products for hydrologic and land surface models applied over Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 0(0), 1–15. http://doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2020.1772116
This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund provided to the Lake Futures project of the Global Water Futures Project. The work was made possible by the facilities of the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET; www.sharcnet.ca) and Compute/Calcul Canada.
For any questions please contact: Ming Han (ming.han@uwaterloo.ca)