This special issue of Hydrological Processes is the ยฎfth resulting from the annual Hydrology Section meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU-HS). This special issue stems from our meeting held in Ban in May 1999.
The CGU-HS brings together scientists from all branches of hydrology. Further information about the society and related meetings can be found on its web site at: http://ecsask65.innovplace.saskatoon.sk.ca/ cguhs/
The 1999 meeting included the following special themes: forest hydrology, wetland hydrology, impacts of climate on hydrology and cold regions processes. The forest hydrology theme was sponsored by the CGU-HS Committee on Forest Hydrology, one of ten HS committees that bring hydrologists together on a range of relevant topics. For more information on these committees and contact names, please see the web page listed above. In addition, the Canadian National Committee of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (CNC/IAHS) sponsored a series of invited papers that reviewed Canadian progress over the previous four years. The written version of these papers represents the contribution of the CNC/ IAHS to the Quadrennial Report of the Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (CNC/IUGG). The Quadrennial Report was tabled at the 22nd Quadrennial Assembly of the IUGG held in Birmingham, UK in July 1999. In addition, these review papers have been published in a special issue of Hydrological Processes, Volume 14 Number 9.