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Overview

Alain Pietroniro is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant contribution to subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work covers key topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate variability and models, and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI.

Alain Pietroniro has published in several notable journals, with frequent venues including Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrological Processes, Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Hydrology.

Recent publications include:

  • Advances in modelling large river basins in cold regions with Modélisation Environmentale Communautaire-Surface and Hydrology (MESH), the Canadian hydrological land surface scheme, 2022, Hydrological Processes
  • Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E), 2021, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
  • High-resolution meteorological forcing data for hydrological modelling and climate change impact analysis in the Mackenzie River Basin, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada - Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • 18O and 2H in streamflow across Canada, 2020, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Frequent coauthors include Tricia Stadnyk, John W. Pomeroy, Martyn Clark, Mohamed Elshamy, and Daniel Princz.

Best Publications

  • Grouped Response Units for Distributed Hydrologic Modeling

    N. Kouwen;E. D. Soulis;A. Pietroniro;J. Donald

  • An evaluation of snow accumulation and ablation processes for land surface modelling

    J. W. Pomeroy;D. M. Gray;K. R. Shook;B. Toth

  • Hydrological trends and variability in the Liard River basin / Tendances hydrologiques et variabilité dans le basin de la rivière Liard

    Donald H. Burn;Donald H. Burn;Juraj M. Cunderlik;Juraj M. Cunderlik;Alain Pietroniro;Alain Pietroniro

  • Towards operational monitoring of a northern wetland using geomatics-based techniques

    Jessika Töyrä;Alain Pietroniro

  • The Fill–Spill Hydrology of Prairie Wetland Complexes during Drought and Deluge

    Dean A. Shaw;Garth Vanderkamp;F. Malcolm Conly;Al Pietroniro

  • Development of the MESH modelling system for hydrological ensemble forecasting of the Laurentian Great Lakes at the regional scale

    A. Pietroniro;V. Fortin;N. Kouwen;C. Neal

  • Hydrological trends and variability in the Liard River basin

    Donald H. Burn;Juraj M. Cunderlik;Alain Pietroniro

  • Remote sensing applications in hydrological modelling

    G. W. Kite;A. Pietroniro

  • Connectivity and storage functions of channel fens and flat bogs in northern basins

    W. L. Quinton;M. Hayashi;A. Pietroniro

  • Hydrologic functions of wetlands in a discontinuous permafrost basin indicated by isotopic and chemical signatures

    Masaki Hayashi;William L. Quinton;Alain Pietroniro;John J. Gibson

  • Multisensor Hydrologic Assessment of a Freshwater Wetland

    Jessika Töyrä;Alain Pietroniro;Lawrence W. Martz

  • On the importance of sublimation to an alpine snow mass balance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

    M. K. MacDonald;J. W. Pomeroy;A. Pietroniro

  • Climate change, flow regulation and land-use effects on the hydrology of the Peace-Athabasca-Slave System; findings from the Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative.

    T. D. Prowse;S. Beltaos;J. T. Gardner;J. J. Gibson

  • A Land Cover-Based Snow Cover Representation for Distributed Hydrologic Models

    J. R. Donald;E. D. Soulis;N. Kouwen;A. Pietroniro

  • A multi‐sensor approach to wetland flood monitoring

    Jessika Töyrä;Alain Pietroniro;Lawrence W. Martz;Terry D. Prowse

  • Flood hydrology of the Peace‐Athabasca Delta, northern Canada

    Daniel L. Peters;Terry D. Prowse;Alain Pietroniro;Robert Leconte

  • Glacier contribution to the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers

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  • Isotope studies in large river basins: A new global research focus

    John J. Gibson;Pradeep Aggarwal;James Hogan;Carol Kendall

  • Topographic analysis for the prairie pothole region of Western Canada

    Dean A. Shaw;Al Pietroniro;L.W. Martz

  • Climatic effects on ice-jam flooding of the Peace-Athabasca Delta

    S. Beltaos;T. Prowse;B. Bonsal;R. MacKay

  • Isotopic time-series partitioning of streamflow components in wetland-dominated catchments, lower Liard River basin, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Natalie A. St Amour;John J. Gibson;Thomas W. D. Edwards;Terry D. Prowse

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry D. Prowse
Terry D. Prowse University of Victoria
Robert Leconte
Robert Leconte Université de Sherbrooke
John W. Pomeroy
John W. Pomeroy University of Saskatchewan
Howard Wheater
Howard Wheater Imperial College London
Donald H. Burn
Donald H. Burn University of Waterloo
Philip Marsh
Philip Marsh Wilfrid Laurier University
John J. Gibson
John J. Gibson University of Victoria
Christopher Spence
Christopher Spence Environment and Climate Change Canada
Barrie Bonsal
Barrie Bonsal University of Victoria
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University

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