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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1-km Gridding Resolution North American Soil Texture

Index

Metadata file identifier

  • 6ea750bf-51a4-11e0-bef1-00219b106224

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    Language

  • eng

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Kit Szeto

    • Organisation name

  • Environment Canada

    • Contact information
    Address
    Electronic mail address

  • kit.szeto@ec.gc.ca

    • Role

  • originator

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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

  • 1-km Gridding Resolution North American Soil Texture

    • Date
    Date

  • 2001-01-01

    • Date Type

  • creation

    • Abstract

  • The main purpose of preparing the gridded land surface dataset at Climate Research Division of Environment Canada is to provide high resolution gridded, self-consistent surface data (such as soil texture, land cover and topographic data) in useable forms and formats to regional climate, hydrology, and ecosystem models. In particular, our goal was to prepare soil texture (volume percentage of sand and clay ) data for the three CLASS (Canadian Land Surface Scheme) standard soil layers (with thickness of 10, 25 and 375 cm), depth-to-bedrock data, and land cover data which complies with the land surface classification scheme of CLASS, at each grid point of a 1-km resolution domain including the whole North America, part of Russia and Greenland. These data can then be aggregated to provide input data for the CRCM III (Canadian Regional Climate Model III, which includes CLASS), or any model that requires such data input, over a wide range of spatial resolutions over the region.

    • Resource maintenance
    Maintenance and update frequency

  • notPlanned

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils > Soil Texture

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • GCMD

    • Date
    Date

  • 2007-04-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Spatial representation type

  • grid

    • Spatial resolution
    Distance
  • Distance:

    1 km

    • Language

  • eng

    • Topic category

  • environment

    • Extent
    Geographic element
    West bound longitude

  • -168

    • East bound longitude

  • -53

    • South bound latitude

  • 25

    • North bound latitude

  • 85

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    Distribution information
    Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name

  • DRI Data Legacy

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://www.drinetwork.ca

    • Role

  • Distributor

    • Transfer options
    Transfer size (Mb)

  • 103

    • On-line resource
    Linkage

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

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