Applications of CEQUEAU hydrological model 

In the last decades, CEQUEAU model was used for many watersheds in the Province  of Quebec, in Canada and elsewhere in North and South America. It is also used in Europe and Africa. In the Province of Quebec, it was applied in some sixty (60) rivers/watersheds and used to determine probable maximal floods (PMF) in many watersheds of northern Quebec.

CEQUEAU model is presently used on a regular basis by some institutions in the Province of Quebec to forecast flow rates in real time. 

The accuracy of CEQUEAU model was tested in comparison with other well known hydrological models in the world in the framework of two (2) inter-comparisons of hydrological models fostered by the World Meteorological   Organisation (WMO). At the occasion of the first inter-comparison (WMO, 1986) dealing with the simulation of flow rates including snow melt, CEQUEAU  model was one of the eleven (11) models originating from eight (8)   countries which was tested on six (6) rivers from six (6) different countries.   

More recently, at the occasion of a second inter-comparison fostered by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO, 1992) related to forecasting of flow rate in real time, CEQUEAU was one of the fourteen (14) models coming from  eleven (11) countries and tested on three (3) rivers from three (3) different  countries. 

REFERENCES
World Meteorological Organization  (1986), Intercomparison of Models of Snowmelt Runoff, Geneva Switzerland Operational Hydrology, WMO, No.646.

World Meteorological Organization  (1992), Simulated Real_time Intercomparison of Hydrological models, Geneva Switzerland Operational Hydrology, WMO, No.779.

Morin, G., Paquet, P., Sochanski W. (1995), Le Modèle de Simulation de Quantité et de Qualité CEQUEAU, Manuel de Références, INRS-Eau Rapport de Recherche, no 433, 341 p. (User manual of version 2.0; user manual of version 4.0 is not yet available).     
 

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