Impact of climate change on irrigation of Saskatchewan
Project Member
October 2020 - April 2021
The project explores the feasibility of future irrigation projects in Saskatchewan affected by
climate-change-induced water availability variations. Specifically, stepwise regression is used to
construct the statistical relationship between climate variables and the streamflow. The
developed statistical model is applied to data from global climate models to generate future
streamflow projections under various emission scenarios. The trend and the statistical
significance of future streamflow will then be estimated using the Mann-Kendall test and Sen’s
slope.