Mohamed Elshamy, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security and Center for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Dominique Richard, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, Canada, Daniel G. Princz, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Alain Pietroniro, Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Hydrology Research Center, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada