Hydrologic systems are typically complex and physical laws to describe explicitly natural hydrologic phenomena are often difficult to formulate. Thus recourse to hydrologic models must be made, whereby hydrologic systems are represented by a set of simplified mathematical equations.
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- AqWBM: Water Balance Model
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- Upper Elbow River Watershed- Flood Risk Study
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- James River- Upper Red Deer Flood Modelling
Hydrologic systems can be treated (depending on availability and quality of data and the objectives of a given study) in various degrees of complexity as deterministic to purely stochastic. The deterministic models assume a priori knowledge of the physical mechanisms operative in the system, while stochastic models assume that the system behavior can be described by probabilistic laws.
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- Tobacco Ck-MB- Water Balance Assessment
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- Sturgeon RW Water Balance Assessment
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- Upper Red – James River Watershed
Hydrologic models may be further sub-classified as lumped, semi-distributed to fully distributed models. Distributed hydrologic models are those that undertake the task of accounting for spatial variabilities of hydrologic processes. A truly distributed model is possible only if the process can be described by an equation having an analytical solution. A lumped model on the other hand ignores spatial variations in hydrologic processes may be easier to deal with. However, with the development of advanced computer technology it is increasingly becoming easier to model complex water resources systems. Hydrologic models can be applied to to assess and predict surface water or groundwater conditions.
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- Flooding & Well Protection
AqCESo has years of international experience in Canada and overseas, providing high quality hydrologic assessment and modelling for a wide range of water resources management projects. Our experience includes software development and using standard software or tools to provide valued products to our clients.