Invited Commentary: Themes and Issues from the Workshop Operational River Flow and Water Supply Forecasting

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Table 1.  Titles and authors of workshop presentations (Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences, 2011). Names of presenters are in bold and are cited in the text.

Title of Presentation	Author
Assessing hydrological forecasts at Hydro-Qubec	Luc Perreault (Hydro-Qubec Research Institute)
	Jocelyn Gaudet (Hydro-Qubec Research Institute)
	James Merleau (Hydro-Qubec Research Institute)
	Mylne Teasdale (Hydro-Qubec Research Institute)
Evaluation of deterministic and probabilistic meteorological forecasts for BC watersheds	Greg West (University of British Columbia and BC Hydro)
	Dominique Bourdin (University of British Columbia)
	Doug McCollor (University of British Columbia and BC Hydro)
	Katelyn Wells (University of British Columbia)
	Roland Stull (University of British Columbia)
Verification of BC Hydro's short- and long-range reservoir inflow forecasts	Adam Gobena (BC Hydro)
	Frank Weber (BC Hydro)
Inflow forecast at Hydro-Qubec Production	Marie-Claude Simard (Hydro-Qubec)
The Ensemble River Forecast System: Towards gaining certainty in uncertainty	Frank Weber (BC Hydro)
	Dimeji Omikunle (Accenture Business Services)
	Scott Weston (BC Hydro)
	Adam Gobena (BC Hydro)
Short-term hydrological ensemble prediction-design and preliminary results	Bruce Davison (Environment Canada and McGill University)
	Vincent Fortin (Environment Canada)
	Al Pietroniro (Environment Canada)
	Peter Yau (McGill University)
	Robert Leconte (University of Sherbrooke)
	Muluneh Mekonnen (University of Saskatchewan)
Member-to-member ensemble hydrometeorological modelling	Dominique Bourdin (University of British Columbia)
	Roland Stull (University of British Columbia)
An experience on the selection of members for simplifying a multimodel hydrological ensemble prediction system	Darwin Brochero (Universit Laval)
	Franois Anctil (Universit Laval)
	Christian Gagn (Universit Laval)
Similarities and difference in hydrologic forecasting approaches between Europe and America	Peter Gijsbers (Deltares USA)
	Edwin Welles (Deltares USA)
	Albrecht Weerts (Deltares NL)
	Micha Werner (Deltares NL and UNESCO-IHE)
Accurate forecasts begin with accurate observations: How improved data production systems can lead the way	Stuart Hamilton (Aquatic Informatics)
	Dave Hutchinson (Environment Canada)
	Touraj Farahmand (Aquatic Informatics)
	Derek Forsbloom (Aquatic Informatics)
How much do we trust our models? Memes in streamflow forecast adjustment	Rashawn Tama (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
	David Garen (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
	Gus Goodbody (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Implication of data assimilation in ensemble streamflow prediction	Hamid Moradkhani (Portland State University)
	Caleb DeChant (Portland State University)
	Reza Najafi (Portland State University)
High resolution modelling of climate processes in diverse landscapes	James Byrne (University of Lethbridge)
Flow-regime estimation in UK ungauged basins	Michael Allchin (Mapmatics)
	Andy Young (Wallingford HydroSolutions UK)
	Matt Holmes (Wallingford HydroSolutions Australia)
Toward improving the multi-modelling hydrologic forecasting: Integration of data assimilation and bayesian model averaging	Hamid Moradkhani (Portland State University)
	Mark Parrish (Portland State University)
	Caleb DeChant (Portland State University)
Probability spring flood forecasts in northern Sweden	Susanne Nystrm (Vattenfall Hydropower AB Sweden)
	Barbro Johansson (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
	Jonas Olsson (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
Development of an inflow forecasting model for the Pointe du Bois spillway replacement project	Phil Slota (Manitoba Hydro)
	John Crawford (Manitoba Hydro) Nol Evora (Manitoba Hydro)
Near real time forecasting of water levels along lower Fraser River during freshet 2011	Khalid Khan (BC Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations)
	Lotte Flint-Petersen (BC Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations)
	Hannah Chiew (BC Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations)

Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences. 2011. Workshop on Operational River Flow and Water Supply Forecasting. http://www.cwra.org/branches/CSHS/PostCSHSWorkshopPresentation2011.aspx.http://www.cwra.org/branches/CSHS/PostCSHSWorkshopPresentation2011.aspx

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