Rainy Lake Hydrology

Computational notebooks analyzing the hydrology of the Rainy River watershed on the Minnesota/Ontario border.

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Rainy Lake Hydrology

This repository holds a collection of computational notebooks analyzing the hydrology of the Rainy River watershed on the Minnesota/Ontario border.

Rainy River discharges of over 50,000 square kilometers, which is greater than the area of Switzerland and slightly less than than the area of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. The Rainy River Basin is part of the Canadian Shield which is the largest freshwater surface are in the world. Fully 25% of the world’s wetlands are in Canada, and 7% of the world’s renewable water supply.

Usage

The code, data, and descriptive materials are available as public github repository. The notebooks were developed and can be executed in the open source Anaconda python distribution available at no cost from Continuum Analytics.

Presentations

A summary of presentations based on the data and calculations in this repository.

Data Sources

The following notebooks provide tools to access relevant level, flow, and precipitation data for an analysis of the hydrology of Rainy Lake. These notebooks ‘pickle’ relevant data series as Pandas series and dataframes for import into other notebooks.

Analysis of Lake Level Behavior 1970-2010

Mitigation through Advanced Control and Optimization