Appendix 1. Sources of data
Comparison
SLR water
temperature time
series
SLR water level
Period
1918–1938
1948–1979
1993–1998
1980–2007
1992–2002
1918–2007
1918–2007
1918–2007
1932–2007
Frequency Location (comment)
Monthly
Montreal Atwater water treatment plant (mean from
reports)
Daily
Montreal Atwater water treatment plant (from graphs)
Weekly
Montreal Atwater water treatment plant (from reports)
Weekly
Montreal Charles-J. Des Baillets water treatment plant
(from reports and electronic files)
Daily
Longueuil water treatment plant (from electronic files)
Daily
Montreal Harbour Jetty No. 1 (station No. 15520)
Daily
Pointe-Claire (station No. 15330)
Daily
Sorel (station No. 15930)
Daily
Montreal (LaSalle station No. 15410, 02OA016,
reconstructed discharge)
SLR discharge
Air temperature
1987–2001
Daily
1987–2001
Daily
1968–2001
Daily
Large-scale climatic 1950–2007
systems
Monthly
1948–2007
Monthly
Source
City of Montreal
City of Montreal
City of Montreal
City of Montreal
City of Longueuil
DFO, 2007
DFO, 2007
DFO, 2007
Bouchard & Morin,
2000; Morin, personal
communication
Cornwall, Moses-Sanders dam
Ontario Power
Generation, 2007
Quebec City (reconstructed discharge from the sum of all Rondeau et al., 2000;
sources contributing to SLR discharge down to Québec) Rondeau, personal
communication
Dorval, Montreal-Pierre-Elliott Trudeau International
DOE, 2007
Airport (station No.7025250, mean daily values from
hourly measurements)
North Atlantic Oscillation Index
http://www.cpc.noaa.go
v/products/precip/CWli
nk/pna/nao.shtml
http://www.pfeg.noaa.g
Northern Oscillation Index
ov/products/PFEL/model
ed/indices/NOIx/noix.ht
ml
1918–2007
Monthly
Southern Oscillation Index
1
http://www.cdc.noaa.go
v/ENSO/
Warm: 1953, 1975, Daily
Warm and cool years 1995, 1998, 1999
in SLR
2001 Cool: 1950,
1951, 1963, 1972,
1976, 1978
Longitudinal
1987–2001
Daily
variations in water
temperature in the
2001
Daily
SLR water mass
2001
Daily
1987–2001
Daily
Transversal gradients 1994
Weekly
of water temperature
and conductivity
2004
Monthly
to identify water
mass
Thermal budget
1992–2001
Daily
of fish residing
1992–2001
Daily
or migrating
between water
masses
Pike YCSI
1968–1976
Yearly
1991–2001
Years when mean water temperature was ≥ 1 s.d. either City of Montreal
above (“warm years”) or below (“cool years”) the 1919– City of Longueuil
2007 mean, and for which daily water temperature
measurements were available, for Montreal-area
treatment plants (Atwater or Longueuil)
km 0 - Cornwall, Moses-Saunders dam
Ontario Power
Generation, 2007
km 125 - Longueuil treatment plant
City of Longueuil
km 235 - Trois-Rivières buoy C-65
DFO, 2003
km 360 - Sainte-Foy treatment plant
City of Québec
River cross-section in narrow corridor between
Hudon, 2000; Hudon,
Repentigny and Varennes (10 stations)
unpubl. data
River cross-section in wide fluvial Lake Saint-Pierre
Hudon & Carignan,
(Transect No. 5, 18 stations)
2008; Hudon, unpubl.
data
Longueuil treatment plant (SLR water mass)
City of Longueuil
Pointe-Claire treatment plant (for the Ottawa River
City of Pointe-Claire
water mass)
Yellow perch YCSI 1982–1989
1991–1998
Carp mortality during May–June
spawning in 2001
2001
Environmental
variables
May–June
inducing carp
2001
mortality during
spawning
Index of year-class strength for yellow perch
(Lake Saint-Pierre)
Observations and reports of live and dead carp in SLR
Yearly
Index of year-class strength for Pike in SLR (Iles de
Boucherville, Rivière aux Pins, Lake Saint-Pierre)
Casual
observations
Every 15
Air temperature at Lake Saint-Pierre
minutes
Water temperature in a wetland and in the navigation
channel in Lake Saint-Pierre
Hourly
Water level at Lake Saint-Pierre
(Curve No. 2, station No. 15975)
2
Massé et al., 1991,
Armellin & Méthot,
2004
Mailhot & Dumont,
2003
Mingelbier et al., 2001
Hudon, unpubl. data
Hudon, unpubl. data
DFO, 2007