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3-year funding program will enhance the capabilities of the Water Balance Model for Canada
The rapid growth and success of the present second generation of the Water Balance Model has fuelled a level of user interest and need that has made it clear that the time has come for the next bold leap forward in the evolution of this web-based tool.
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Partnership with University of British Columbia Leads to Development of 'Tree Canopy Module' and Research Project to Populate the Water Balance Model with Tree-Specific Data
Collaboration between researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver region"s three North Shore municipalities --- North Vancouver District, North Vancouver City, and the District of West Vancouver --- has opened the door to quantifying the proportion of rainfall intercepted by the tree canopy in an urban forest, advancing the state-of-the-art for rainfall interception analysis, and populating the Tree Canopy Module in the Water Balance Model.
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