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How a former ski hill in southern Alberta has become key to studying climate change
The centre's Coldwater laboratory has outfitted this former ski area in the Alberta Rockies with instruments placed on ridges, glaciers, valleys and creeks. The data collected here is being used to form new and more reliable climate prediction models for flood, drought and water supply forecasting.
If temperatures dip low enough, batteries at some stations need to be swapped out. And that's a heavy lift: a camping cooler full of car batteries needs to be dragged to the site and buried in deep snow as a backup if wind and solar power fail. At every station, Pomeroy has a laundry list of ongoing experiments as well as discoveries researchers with the centre for hydrology and experts from other institutions have made here.
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