A computer database of historic hourly, and daily water level data from the 6 master water level gages, one for each Great lake and Lake St. Clair, and from the long term water level gage at Buffalo on Lake Erie will be developed. 2000 Accomplishments St. Clair and Detroit Rivers Flow Coordination. The flows will be published for use in Great Lakes water quantity and water quality studies. Great Lakes Internationally Coordinated Routing Model. A modular, object-oriented, middle Great Lakes hydrologic routing model, developed and coordinated between the US and Canada, has been linked with the Lake Superior regulation plan and is now operational for the basin above Niagara Falls.
Work is in process for refining the model and incorporating the Lake Ontario regulation plan.
The model is currently being run operationally for a number of Great Lake studies. This involved developing computer programs that were used in the digitizing and quality controlling of over 6 million lines of data. As of September 1,2000 this data was given to NOS who will put it on the correct datum and make it available to the public. Once the data is on the correct datum, we can use it for looking at long-term storm activity in the Great Lakes. The flows will be published for use in Great Lakes water quantity and water quality studies.