DRI:
Drought Research Initiative

DRI Legacy

DRI endeavoured to provide tangible outcomes of its 5 year research effort to the broader scientific community and general public. This intention was addressed through focusing on several intiatives during the wind down of the network.

These efforts are listed below:

DRI:
Drought Research Initiative
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Monthly Gridded SPI and PDSI (1901-2005) over the Canadian Prairies

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Metadata file identifier

  • 06b67be8-a004-11df-b8c2-00219b106224

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    Language

  • eng

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Elaine Wheaton

    • Organisation name

  • Saskatchewan Research Council

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • +13069338179

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • 15 Innovation Boulevard

    • City

  • Saskatoon

    • Administrative area

  • Saskatchewan

    • Postal code

  • S7N 2X8

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • wheaton@src.sk.ca

    • Role

  • author

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Barry Bonsal

    • Organisation name

  • Environment Canada

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • +13069755754

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • 11 Innovation Boulevard

    • City

  • Saskatoon

    • Administrative area

  • Saskatchewan

    • Postal code

  • S7N 3H5

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • Barrie.Bonsal@ec.gc.ca

    • Role

  • author

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    Metadata date stamp

  • 2010-08-04

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    Metadata standard name

  • ISO 19115

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    Metadata standard version

  • ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006

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    Identification Information
    Citation
    Title

  • Monthly Gridded SPI and PDSI (1901-2005) over the Canadian Prairies

    • Date
    Date

  • 2009-09-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Abstract

  • The data set includes PDSI and SPI for the Canadian Prairie Region ranging from 1901 to 2005. The gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) data quantifies drought conditions on a monthly scale from 1901-2005 over a large section of western North America centered over the Canadian Prairies. The indices are calculated on a 10km grid with the temperature and precipitation inputs provided by the ANUSPLIN dataset from the Canadian Forestry Service.

    • Purpose

  • Developed to assist in the comparison of previous drought years to the target drought of 1999-2005.

    • Status

  • completed

    • Resource maintenance
    Maintenance and update frequency

  • notPlanned

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Climate Indicators > Drought/Precipitation Indices

    • Keyword

  • Climate Indicators > Drought/Precipitation Indices > Palmer Drought Severity Index

    • Keyword

  • Climate Indicators > Drought/Precipitation Indices > Standardized Precipitation Index

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • GCMD

    • Date
    Date

  • 2007-04-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Spatial representation type

  • grid

    • Language

  • eng

    • Topic category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

    • Extent
    Geographic element
    West bound longitude

  • -120

    • East bound longitude

  • -90

    • South bound latitude

  • 40

    • North bound latitude

  • 60

    • Temporal element
    Extent
  • gml:beginPosition:

    1901-01-01T00:00:00

  • gml:endPosition:

    2005-12-31T00:00:00

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    Distribution information
    Distribution format
    Name

  • TXT

    • Version

  • N/A

    • Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name

  • DRI Data Legacy

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://www.drinetwork.ca/

    • Role

  • Distributor

    • Transfer options
    Transfer size (Mb)

  • 2820

    • On-line resource
    Linkage

  • http://odin.meteo.mcgill.ca/dri_download/Gridded SPI and PDSI.zip

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