Objectives

The project is aimed at the improvement of models for monitoring and forecasting river runoff in mountainous and high latitude basins where snowmelt is a major component of the water balance.

The main objectives are:

• Customer definition of requirements for runoff modelling and short-term runoff forecasting, and communication with customers throughout the project.
• Modification of models used to calculate runoff for improved handling and use of remote sensing information (Snow Runoff Model (SRM) of Rango and Martinec, and HBV model of SMHI)
• Development of methods of extraction of hydrological parameters, from satellite data, for these models.
• Customer validation of the hydrological models for water management applications.
• Customer assessment of improvements to the models due to the remote sensing contribution.
• Customer assessment of the cost effectiveness of the models
• To make the developed modelling and forecasting system available to the public in electronic form, including online demonstration packages, through CEO Enabling Services