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:

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Drought Research Initiative
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CRHM prairie wide model output (1961-2006)

Index

Metadata file identifier

  • 0f7eb807-f922-11dd-9a71-00219b106224

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    Language

  • eng

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    Hierarchy level

  • Dataset

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Kevin Shook

    • Organisation name

  • Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan

    • Contact information
    Address
    Delivery point

  • 117 Science Place

    • City

  • Saskatoon

    • Administrative area

  • Saskatchewan

    • Postal code

  • S7N 5C8

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • krs350@mail.usask.ca

    • Role

  • originator

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • John Pomeroy

    • Organisation name

  • Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan

    • Contact information
    Address
    Delivery point

  • 117 Science Place

    • City

  • Saskatoon

    • Administrative area

  • Saskatchewan

    • Postal code

  • S7N 5C8

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • john.pomeroy@usask.ca

    • Role

  • principalInvestigator

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    Metadata date stamp

  • 2010-10-28

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    Metadata standard name

  • ISO 19115 Geographic information - Metadata

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    Metadata standard version

  • ISO 19115:2003

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    Identification Information
    Citation
    Title

  • CRHM prairie wide model output (1961-2006)

    • Date
    Date

  • 2010-10-28

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Abstract

  • This dataset comprises modelling output of the Cold Regions Hydrological Model CRHM) that was run to simulate and generate maps of water inputs to streams and sloughs across the prairies. Due to the high data demands of the model, and lack of suitable data on the prairies, the hourly meteorological observations for a variety of locations across western Canada from January 1, 1960 to May 20, 2006 were used. The station locations are: Brandon, Calgary, Cold Lake, Edmonton, Edmonton, Estevan, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, North Battleford, Prince Albert, Red Deer, Regina, Saskatoon, Swift Current, Winnipeg and Yorkton. This forcing data can be found in Hourly Prairie Meteorological Station Observations (1960-2006) also in the DRI Data Legacy. At each of these stations the meteorological data were used as the forcing to run CRHM on a typical prairie basin. These basin outputs were further simplified and standardized across the region by calculating an exceedance fraction. The exceedance fraction is the probability of a certain observed event (simplified 0 = below normal, 0.5 = normal and 1 = above normal). These results were then interpolated to produce standardized surfaces of annual water discharges into sloughs and streams across the region. The purpose was to gain an understanding of the hydrologic sensitivities of changes in meteorological forcings across the Canadian Prairies particularly in drought conditions.

    • Status

  • completed

    • Resource maintenance
    Maintenance and update frequency

  • notPlanned

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Surface Water

    • Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Discharge/Flow

    • Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Runoff

    • Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Wetlands

    • Type

  • theme

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • GCMD

    • Date
    Date

  • 2007-04-01

    • Date Type

  • Publication

    • Spatial representation type

  • vector

    • Language

  • English

    • Character set

  • utf8

    • Topic category

  • environment

    • Extent
    Geographic element
    West bound longitude

  • -115

    • East bound longitude

  • -96

    • South bound latitude

  • 49

    • North bound latitude

  • 55

    • Temporal element
    Extent
  • gml:beginPosition:

    1960-01-01T00:00:00

  • gml:endPosition:

    2006-12-31T00:00:00

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    Distribution information
    Distribution format
    Name

  • XLS

    • Version

  • 2003

    • Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name

  • DRI Data Legacy

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://www.drinetwork.ca/

    • Role

  • Distributor

    • Transfer options
    Transfer size (Mb)

  • 2

    • On-line resource
    Linkage

  • http://odin.meteo.mcgill.ca/dri_download/crhm_prairie.zip

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