DRI: Drought Research Initiative

2009 Drought Datasets

This is a list of datasets relevant to the 2009 drought and will be updated as datasets become available.
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Dataset Name	Source
Eddy Flux Data from the West Nose Creek watershed: two sites (grassland and barley field)	Masaki Hayashi
2008- 2009 Validated and Provisional Streamflow North Saskatchewan River at Edmonton Battle Creek at the Alberta Boundary Battle River near the Saskatchewan Border Red Deer River near Bindloss Bow River near the Mouth Oldman River near the Mouth South Saskatchewan at Medicine Hat Bulk File of all rivers (tab delimited or csv)	Alberta Environment/ Water Survey of Canada
Meteorological and Soil Moisture Data from Alberta Agriculture Drought Monitoring Network (DRI use only) 31 Stations throughout Alberta: April 1 to July 12, 2009	Alberta Agriculture
Meteorological and Soil Moisture Data from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (DRI use only) 6 Stations throughout Alberta: 2003- June 30, 2009	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
AB SK and MB Groundwater Levels upto 2009 SK Surficial Observation Wells to May 2009 - chart SK Geological Weighing Lysimeters to May 2009 - chart	Garth van der Kamp
2008-2009 Winter Snowpack Remotely Sensed Praire SWE March 1 2009 March 1 2009, difference from normal April 1 2009 Alberta Environment Plains Snow Courses March 2009 April 2009	Environment Canada/ Alberta Environment