Data
A critical aspect of DRI concerns the access to information regarding a wide variety of variables that can be used to characterize drought. Table 1 outlines a preliminary list of datasets that can be considered in the context of characterizing and quantifying drought. Table 2 is a modified version of Table 1, and includes an evolving list of data sources and links relevant to DRI; this table will be updated as DRI proceeds. Please refer to DRI's Data Access Policy for further information regarding data sharing and accessibility.
The following list provides access to datasets and various internet links to data sources:
Basic Features of the Region
- Prairie
river basins
- Prairie
river landcover type
- Eco-zones in
Canada
- Global River Basins
- North
American maps
Combination
- The Atlas of Canada
- Coordiated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP)
- Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
- Global
Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
- GPCC Data Visualizer
- GPCC Data Download Gateway
- Global Annual Precipitation Percentage of Normals (1961-90) - 1999-2005 (animated loop)
- North American Annual Precipitation Percentage of Normals (1961-90) - 1999-2005 (animated loop)
- North American Seasonal Precipitation Percentage of Normals (1961-90) - 1998-2005 (animated loop)
- Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)
- Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)
- International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
- International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP)
- Mackenzie GEWEX Study (MAGS)
- MISR data (NASA satellite data)
- NCEP Re-analysis data, forecasts, satellite, radar, etc.
Hydrological
- Environment
Canada, Water Survey of Canada (National Water Quantity Survey Program)
- Archived Hydrometric Data - query the on-line database
- Archived Sediment Data - query the on-line database
- Real-time Hydrometric Data - text search or map search
- Alberta Environment
- Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
- Manitoba
- Manitoba Water Stewardship
- Manitoba Hydro - water regimes and levels
- Manitoba Water Stewardship
- Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC) - Potential Impact of Climate Change on Prairie Groundwater Supplies: Review of Current Knowledge by Harm Matthuis
- State of the Canadian Cryosphere - snow water equivalent
- Worldwide Integrated Study of Extremes (WISE)
- Observation Well Data for AB, SK and MB - download data (.zip), documentation (.doc)
Ocean Surface
- National Oceanographic Data Center: Monthly-averaged SST, 1981 - 2007
- Sea surface temperatures predicted via NOAA Wave Watch 3 model
Land Surface
- Princeton University Global Meteorological Forcing Dataset for Land Surface Modeling. NetCDF UCAR DSS
- The Blue
Marble: Next Generation (NASA high-res land surface satellite
images)
- GRACE
(Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite data
(password-protected)
- 1-km Land Surface Data (Land Cover and Soil Texture) - download
data (.zip), documentation
(.doc)
- further enquiries through Normand Bussieres (land cover and DEM) or Kit Szeto (soil data)
- Topographic Maps, GIS and Remote Sensing land cover data
- USGS Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC) - Experiment Plan
- Daily Soil Moisture Simulation with the VIC Model(courtesy of Lei Wen) [for Internet Explorer]
- Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) Data Product: time series of land surface state and flux parameters under four different simulation models (CLM, MOSAIC, NOAH and VIC). 1979 - present.
Land Use
- Crops:
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Drought Watch
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National Land and Water Information Service (NLWIS)
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (PFRA), GIS Mapping Applications and Data
- Canadian Wheat Board (midge emergence maps)
- Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, Crop Statistics
- Statistics
Canada, Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP)
- Forests:
Modelling and Prediction
- JRA-25 Atlas
- Comparison of ERA-40 and JRA-25 Atlas
- CMC Model Archive
- CRCM/GCM/NARR DATA ACCESS INTEGRATION (English, registration required)
- CRCM/GCM/NARR DATA ACCESS INTEGRATION (French, registration required)
- Environment Canada Seasonal Forecasts
- Environment Canada - Sea Surface Temperature Anomoly (including snow depth and ice concentration) (animated loop)
- Environment Canada Weather Charts (including operational GEM analyses/prognoses)
- Global Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS)
- Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2)
- Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center - contains various earth science data and information (Mirador or Giovanni downloads recommended for data search and analysis)
- Historical Forecast Project 2 (HFP2) Data - Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma)
- Land Data
Assimilation Systems (LDAS) - including North American
(NLDAS) and Global (GLDAS) LDAS systems
- sample Model Output Information
- sample Model Forcing Data Information
- Land Information System (NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center)
- National Center for Environmental Modeling (NCEP) Reanalysis Electronic Atlas
- National Digital Forecast Database (National Weather Service)
- North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) Data
Radiation
Remote Sensing Imagery
- Giovanni Data System
- Environment
Canada Lightning Data
- Canadian Lightning Detection Network - ASCII data on all lightning events within the CLDN real-time delivery region (1997-2005) can be made available by contacting John Hanesiak.
- Environment Canada Processed NOAA Satellite Imagery
- Environment Canada Radar Imagery (current operational)
- Global Hydrology Resource Center
- NASA Interactive Satellite Imagery
- Natural
Resources Canada
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
- GeoGratis - 1:50,000 to 1:30,000,000 vector mapping data
- NOAA Satellite Imagery (1km)
- NOAA/NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies
- NOAA/NSIDC March through August Ice Edge Positions in the Nordic Seas, 1750-2002
- NOAA/NSIDC Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis (4km and 24km)
- WMI Radar Image, Didsbury-Olds Airport, AB (summer only)
Surface Meteorology
- Alberta Environment - Daily Precipitation Data
- Climate Rainfall Data Center
- Environment Canada, Climate Data and Climate Normals
- Environment
Canada, Adjusted Historical Precipitation and Temperature Data
(EC access only)
- monthly datasets for BC, AB, SK and MB; daily datasets are available by contacting Eva Mekis (precipitation) or Lucie Vincent (temperature)
- Global
Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) (Gridded Global
Monthly Mean Precipitation)
- International Precipitation Working Group
- NOAA CPC Morphing Technique (CMORPH) (high resolution precipitation estimates)
Teleconnections Indices
- Arctic Oscillation (AO)
- North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
- North Pacific (NP) Index
- Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
- Pacific North American (PNA) Pattern
- Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)
Upper Atmosphere
- Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA)
- University
of Wyoming Radiosonde Data (text, Skew-T, Hodographs)
- 1947-97 FSL Radiosonde Data
- NCDC (National Climatic Data Center IGRA (Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive) Data
Research Sites and Datasets
- A-GAME (Alberta GPS Atmospheric Moisture Evaluation): GPS moisture data, radiosonde data, surface transect data, radar images – enquiries through or
- ALHAP
(Alberta Hail Project): radar, aircraft, surface
precipitation and upper-air data (1979-'85,'89,'91)
- AmeriFlux Network: a network providing continuous observations of ecosystem level exchanges of CO2, water, energy and momentum; currently composed of sites from North America, Central America, and South America.
- Assiniboine Delta Aquifer: resurrected dataset from Manitoba Conservation – enquiries through
- Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS) – enquiries through
- Bratt's Lake – enquiries through
- Fluxnet-Canada Data Portal (registration required)
- South Saskatchewan River Basin Project – enquiries through Terry Rolfe
- St. Denis National Wildlife Area – enquiries through
- West Nose Creek: groundwater monitoring and hydrometeorological data – enquiries through