DRI Workshop #2: Presentations
Session 1 - Welcome and Introductions
- Ron Stewart: DRI Objectives, Strategy, Progress and an Overview of the 1999-2005 Drought
- Rick Lawford: Programmatic Structure of DRI and Workshop Objectives
- Patrice Constanza and Matt Regier: Introductions to the DRI Website and Data Archives
Session 2 - Drought Characterization and Impacts
Session 3 - Subsurface to Surface Drought Linkages
- Ken Snelgrove: GRACE Satellite Observations for Drought Monitoring
- Al Woodbury: SABAE-HW - An Enhancement of the Water Balance Prediction in the Canadian Land Surface Scheme
- Masaki Hayashi: Effects of Wet-Dry Cycles on Groundwater Sustainability in the Prairies
Session 4 - Regional Water and Energy Cycling
- Kit Szeto: The DRI Water and Energy Budget Study (DRI-WEBS)
- Ron Stewart: Clouds, Storms and Drought
- Henry Leighton: Clouds, Aerosols and Prairie Drought
Session 5 - Surface – Water – Atmosphere Exchanges
- Paul Bullock: Quantifying Agricultural Drought: An Assessment Using Western Canadian Spring Wheat
- Chris Derksen: Satellite Derived Snow Cover Datasets for Western Canada
- Rick Raddatz: Moisture Recycling on the Canadian Prairies
- Dave Sauchyn: Spatiotemporal Variability and Periodicities in Moisture-Sensitive Tree-Ring Chronologies in the Western Interior
- Aston Chipanshi: Soil Moisture Monitoring Using the National Drought Model
Session 6A - Partner Presentations
- Efrem Teklemariam: Status of Drought Research in Manitoba Hydro
- Mike McDonald: SPC Links to Drought Monitoring and Prediction
- Harvey Hill: National Agro-Climate Information Service
Session 6B - Partner Presentations
- Irene Hanuta: A Proposed National Drought Strategy for Canada
- Henry Venema: Adaptation as Resilience Building: A Policy Study of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaption on the Canadian Prairies
- Bart Oegema: Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
- Ray Keller: Impact of Drought on Water Supplies in Alberta
- Guy Ash: Impacts of Drought & Weather Variability on the CWB
- Alf Warkentin: Coping with Drought
- Ken Korporal: From Observations to Societal Benefits
Session 7 - Atmospheric Circulation and Precipitation
- Eyad Atallah: A Series of Unfortunate Events
- John Gyakum: Warm-Season Blocking Over North America and its Relationship to Canadian Prairie Droughts
- Geoff Strong: Atmospheric Moisture and Thunderstorm Drought
- Steven Quiring: What Causes Drought? An Examination of the Role of Land Surface Conditions
Session 8 - Drought Simulation and Prediction
- Daniel Caya: (P-E) Changes for 10 Quebec Watersheds in a Future Climate
- Charles Lin: Seasonal Forecast of Summer Precipitation and Soil Moisture Analysis
Session 9 - Field Projects, Drought Monitoring, Data Systems and Satellite Data Applications
- Al Howard: Climate Data and Drought Research
- Susan Skone: Atmospheric Moisture Data from Canadian GPS Stations
- Alexander Trishchenko: Two Decades of AVHRR and MODIS Satellite Data Records Over Canadian Prairies at 250m-1km Spatial Resolution
- Neil Taylor: Understanding Severe Thunderstorms and Alberta Boundary Layers Experiment (UNSTABLE)
Session 10 - Make-up Session
- Elaine Wheaton: Exploring the Surface Characteristics of the 1999-2005 Drought in the Canadian Prairies
- John Pomeroy: Land Surface Hydrological Processes and Modelling
- Barrie Bonsal: Historical Perspective of the 2001 and 2002 Canadian Prairie Drought
- Al Pietroniro: Water Availability for NAESI
- Garth van der Kamp: Assessing the Water and Energy Balances at the BERMS Flux Towers, 1999 to 2005
- Gary Burke: MESH Development Progress Chart
Session 11 - Introductions to the Themes and Working Groups
- Theme #1
- Theme #2: Barrie Bonsal and Masaki Hayashi
- Theme #3
- Theme #4
- Theme #5