Welcome to HydroForecast

Increase revenue, manage risks, and modernize operations

A confluence of hydrological modeling with the latest advancements in AI, HydroForecast provides the most accurate and actionable streamflow forecasts available to enable safe and efficient water resource management.
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Trusted by dozens of leading hydropower producers, utilities, and government agencies

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Minimize risk with proven performance

HydroForecast swept a yearlong, short-term flow forecasting competition.

In every competition region, HydroForecast was more accurate further into the future and provided better insight in both drought conditions and 1,000-year storms.

Leverage AI to manage water-related risks

As climate change and extreme weather impact our water system, relationships between the variables that affect flows, like snowpack and temperature, are changing.

In these challenging circumstances, stakeholders from across the industry need new tools to improve subseasonal-to-seasonal water supply predictions.

Learn how to leverage AI, across industries and use cases, to manage water related risks with industry leading accuracy.

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Hydropower generation
Maximize revenue, optimize generation and minimize spill with forecasts directly at a fleet’s assets.
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Capital investment
De-risk major investment decisions by modeling future flows and climate scenarios that could impact key assets.
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Energy trading
Optimize your bidding with better information about future flows.
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Reservoir management
Understand the seasonal water supply outlook for a basin; monitor high flow events up to 10 days out.
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Dam safety
Identify and quantify the magnitude of high risk events.
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"HydroForecast has proven to be an important datapoint for Brookfield Renewable's reservoir planning and management activities. It has led to a more proactive approach to the short- and mid-term planning, an improved probabilistic view of generation and enhanced trading and operational decision-making. HydroForecast has been a truly successful project for Brookfield Renewable."

A novel approach with science-guided AI

HydroForecast learns to represent hydrologic processes by identifying relationships between satellite observations, basin characteristics, meteorological forecasts, and streamflow measurements.

We believe that the best model is one grounded in physical scientific principles, and enhanced by finding deep connections in the relationships between data using machine learning models.

Our work is based on peer-reviewed research, and is the result of collaboration with leading universities and researchers.

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Basin map for the Folsom Lake drainage area, highlighting the sub-basin modeling units that HydroForecast uses in its neural network.

Forecasts for every operation

HydroForecast is designed to adapt to different needs and provide tailored forecasts. Scroll over to learn more, or find more information on dedicated pages.

  • Past: Historical Reanalysis
  • Present: Virtual Gauge
  • Up to 10 days out: Short-term
  • Up to 1 year out: Seasonal, Extended
  • Up to 75 years out: Long-term
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Past
Historical Reanalysis

HydroForecast can construct a 20-year daily continuous streamflow record at any location in the world, partially gauged, or completely ungauged, and in both natural and altered watersheds.

Today
Virtual gauge

Increase the density of a streamflow monitoring network by adding points where having up to date weather, snow and streamflow data is important for real-time decisions.

Short-term

Hourly 10-day ahead forecast for operational decision making – the most accurate in North America.

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Seasonal

Daily updating, 90-day ahead forecasts for proactive water and risk management.

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Extended

Need streamflow and volume information out to one-year ahead? This horizon extends the 90-day seasonal to cover the full 12 months ahead.

Future
Long-term

Understand how water patterns could change for a specific area under different climate scenarios.

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"Using HydroForecast has provided extremely helpful insight into short-term and long-term/seasonal inflow predictions. The graphics effectively communicate forecasts in a manner which allows teams from various disciplines to easily interpret and utilize the information, [and] HydroForecast also allows for easy integration into other in-house tools."