Welcome to the Drought Characterization Workshop
Friday, September 26, 2008
- Kit Szeto- Welcome, overview of precipitation dataset and drought indices issues and workshop objectives
- Ron Stewart- DRI overview and updates
- Xiaolan Wang- Homogenization of station data and development of blended precipitation dataset
- Eva Mekis- Corrected station precipitation archive and derived datasets
- Ewa Milewska- Gridded temperature and precipitation datasets for Canada
- Marco Carrera- Development of the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA) and Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS)
- Rick Lawford - Global precipitation datasets
- Phillip Harder and Patrice Constanza- DRI datasets and legacy dataset development plan
- Xuebin Zhang- Climate extreme indices
- Richard Heim- Drought and climate extremes indices for the North American Drought Monitor and North America Climate Extremes Monitoring System
- Eric Wood- Land data assimilation products and their applications in drought monitoring and forecast
- Lei Wen- Real time drought monitoring and forecasting over the Canadian Prairies using the VIC model
- Amir Shabbar- On the genesis of prolonged drought in Canada
- Kit Szeto- Trends of Prairie drought
- Philippe Gachon- Indices of droughts (SPI & PDSI) over Canada as simulated by a statistical downscaling model: current and future periods
- Sharon Fernandez- Canadian Drought Alert and Monitoring Program (CDAMP)
- Alison Meinert- Capturing the dynamics of the 1999-2005 Canadian Prairie drought using the SPI and PDSI
- Kit Szeto- Issues for discussions at break-outs