DRI: Drought Research Initiative

DRI Precipitation and Drought Indices Workshop

Workshop Program

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00 Kit Szeto- Welcome, overview of precipitation dataset and drought indices issues and workshop objectives
09:15 Ron Stewart- DRI overview and updates

Precipitation and Associated Derived Datasets

09:30 Xiaolan Wang- Homogenization of station data and development of blended precipitation dataset
09:50 Eva Mekis- Corrected station precipitation archive and derived datasets
10:05 Ewa Milewska- Gridded temperature and precipitation datasets for Canada
10:20-10:45 Break (coffee served outside the Auditorium)
10:45 Marco Carrera- Development of the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA) and Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS)
11:05 Rick Lawford - Global precipitation datasets
11:20 Phillip Harder and Patrice Constanza- DRI datasets and legacy dataset development plan
11:35-12:45 Lunch (provided, MSC cafeteria)

Drought Indices and Applications

12:45 Xuebin Zhang- Climate extreme indices
13:00 Richard Heim- Drought and climate extremes indices for the North American Drought Monitor and North America Climate Extremes Monitoring System
13:20 Eric Wood- Land data assimilation products and their applications in drought monitoring and forecast
13:40 Lei Wen- Real time drought monitoring and forecasting over the Canadian Prairies using the VIC model
13:55 Amir Shabbar- On the genesis of prolonged drought in Canada
14:10 Kit Szeto- Trends of Prairie drought
14:25 Philippe Gachon- Indices of droughts (SPI & PDSI) over Canada as simulated by a statistical downscaling model: current and future periods
14:40 Sharon Fernandez- Canadian Drought Alert and Monitoring Program (CDAMP)
14:55 Alison Meinert- Capturing the dynamics of the 1999-2005 Canadian Prairie drought using the SPI and PDSI
15:10 Kit Szeto- Issues for discussions at break-outs
15:15-15:30 Break (coffee and snacks at MSC cafeteria)

Break-outs and Discussions