DRI: Drought Research Initiative

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Pomeroy, J., K.R. Shook, R.N. Armstrong, X. Fang. 2010. Drought, Climate Variability and Water Resources in Western Canada. Presented at The Third International Symposium on Arid Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ISACS-3). September 8-10, 2010, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
CMOS and CGU presentations
Presentations from the GEWEX/CEOP Extremes workshop in Vancouver are available at the Extremes website.
Presentations from DRI Workshop #4 are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Presentations from DRI Workshop #3 are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Presentations from DRI Workshop #2 are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Presentations from DRI Workshop #1 are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Presentations from the DRI Prediction Workshop are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Presentations from the DRI Evaporation Workshop are available from the EVENTS section of this web site.
Bonsal, B., 2007. Droughts in Canada: An Overview. Presented at CMOS/CGU/AMS Congress 2007 in St. John's, NL.
Canada DRI: the Drought Research Initiative. Presented at AGU, 2005.
Lawford, R., 2007. A Review of Some Requirements for Drought Information on the Canadian Prairies. Presented at CMOS/CGU/AMS Congress 2007 in St. John's, NL.
Stewart, R.E., 2007. Canadian Prairie Drought and the Drought Research Initiative (DRI). Presented at CMOS/CGU/AMS Congress 2007 in St. John's, NL.
Szeto, K., 2007. Water Cycling and Drought in 3 North American River Basins. Presented at CMOS/CGU/AMS Congress 2007 in St. John's, NL.
Pomeroy, J. and M. Solohub, 2006. Ensuring Sufficient Water Supply for the Emerging Bioeconomy. Presented at BIOCAP Canada Foundation 2nd National Conference, 2006.
Bonsal, B., 2006. Droughts in Canada: An Overview. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2006 in San Francisco, CA.
Stewart, R.E., 2006. A severe recent drought over the Canadian Prairies. 5th Intl. CEOP Planning Meeting, Paris.
Stewart, R.E. and J. Pomeroy, 2006. The Drought Research Initiative: A Study of the 1999-2005 Severe Drought over the Canadian Prairies. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2006 in San Francisco, CA.
Szeto, K. and R.E. Stewart, 2006. The First WISE Case Study: A Water and Energy Balance Investigation of the 1999-2004 Severe Drought in the Canadian Prairies. Presented at pan-GEWEX meeting, 2006.

DRI Publications

Zha, T., A. G. Barr, G. van der Kamp, T.A. Black, J. H. McCaughey and L. B. Flanagan, 2010: Interannual variability in evapotranspiration from forest and grassland ecosystems in western Canada in relation to drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150, 1476-1484. [doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.08.003].
Hanesiak, J., M. Melsness and R.L. Raddatz, 2010: Observed and Modeled Growing Season Diurnal Precipitable Water Vapour in South-Central Canada, (in press) J. Appl. Meteorol. and Clim.
Brimelow, J.C., J.M. Hanesiak, R.L. Raddatz and M. Hayashi, 2010: Validation of ET estimates from the Canadian prairie agrometeorological model for contrasting vegetation types and growing seasons. Can. J. Water Res., 35(2), 209–230
Brimelow, J.C., J.M. Hanesiak, and R.L. Raddatz, 2010: Validation of the Canadian prairie agrometeorological model and an examination of its sensitivity to soil hydraulic parameters using ensembles. Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150, 100-114.
Hanesiak, J., Tat, A. and Raddatz, R.L., 2009. Initial soil moisture as a predictor of subsequent summer severe weather in the cropped grassland of the Canadian Praire Provinces. Int. J. Climatol., 29: 899-909.
Shabbar, A., and B. Yu., 2009. The 1998–2000 La Nin˜a in the context of historically strong La Nin˜a events, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D13105.
Raddatz, R. L. and J. M. Hanesiak, 2008. Significant summer rainfall in the Canadian Prairie Provinces: modes and mechanisms 2000-2004. Int. J. Climatol., 12: 1607-1613.
Finlay, G.,et al., 2007. Genotypic and environmental variation in grain, flour, dough and bread-making characteristics of western Canadian spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
Grieef, L.,2007. Establishing a Rural Groundwater Monitoring Network UsingExisting Wells: West Nose Creek Pilot Study, Alberta
Raddatz, R. and Hanesiak, J., 2007. Significant Summer Rainfall in the Canadian Prairie Provinces: Modes and Mechanisms 2000-2004
Song G, and Leighton H., 2007. Satellite-Derived Aerosol Radiative Forcing from the 2004 British Columbia Wildfires
Wen, L.,et al, 2007. Analysis and Improvement of runoff generation in the land surface scheme CLASS and comparison with field measurements from China
Wu, Z., et al, 2007. Thirty-Five year (1971-2005) Simulation of Daily Soil Moisture Using the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model over China
Fernandes, R., Korolevych, V., Wang, S., 2007. Trends in Land Evapotransporation over Canada for the Period 1960-2000 Based on In Site Climate Observations and a Land Surface Model, J. Hydrometeor, 1016-1030.
Wheaton, E.,Koshida, G., Bonsal, B., Johnston, T., Richards, W., Wittrock, V., 2007. Agricultural Adaptation to Drought in Canada: The Case of 2001 to 2002, Saskatchewan Research Council, May 2007.
Fang, X., Pomeroy, J. Snowmelt runoff sensitivity analysis to drought on the Canadian prairies. Hydrological Processes, 21, 2594-2609.
Pomeroy, J., et al., 2007. The cold regions hydrological model. Hydrological Processes, 21, 2650-2667.
Fang, X., 2007. Snow Hydrology of Canadian Prarie Droughts: Model Development and Application. M.Sc. thesis.
Bonsal, B. and E. Wheaton, 2005. Atmospheric Circulation Comparisons between the 2001 and 2002 and the 1961 and 1988 Canadian Prairie Droughts. Atmosphere-Ocean, 43(2), 163-172.
Bonsal, B. and M. Regier, 2007. Historical comparison of the 2001/2002 drought in the Canadian Prairies. Climate Research, 33, 229-242.
Liu, J. and R.E. Stewart, 2003. Water vapour features over the Saskatchewan River basin. J. Hydrometeor., 4, 944-959.
Liu, J., R.E. Stewart and K.K. Szeto, 2004. Moisture transport and other hydrometeorological features associated with the sever 2000/01 drought over the Canadian Prairies. J. Climate, 17, 305-319.
Pomeroy, J., R.E. Stewart and the DRI Team, 2005. The Canada DRI, a new Drought Research Initiative for the Canadian Prairies. AGU Autumn Conference, San Francisco.
Roberts, E., R.E. Stewart and C.A. Lin, 2006. A study of drought characteristics over the Canadian Prairies. Atmosphere-Ocean, 44, 331-345.
Raddatz, R.L., 2005. Moisture recycling on the Canadian Prairies for Summer droughts and pluvials from 1997 to 2003. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 131, 13-26.
Szeto, K.K., 2007. Assessing Water and Energy Budgets for the Saskatchewan River Basin. J. Met. Soc. Jap., 85A, 167-186.

A special DRI issue of the journal Atmosphere-Ocean is being prepared. The expected publication date is late 2010 or early 2011. Required information including the submission deadline is being updated as appropriate.

United Nations - International Strategy on Drought Reduction
Luminus Magazine has an article on Ken Snelgrove and DRI Canada, 2007.
Marchildon, Gregory P., et al., 2007. Drought and institutional adaptation in the Great Plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939, Natural Hazards, DOI 10.1007
Martz, L., Bruneau, J., Rolfe., J., 2007. Climate Change and Water: SSRB Final Technical Report and appendices.
Charlton Communications, 2006. The Weather Men: Saskatchewan Researchers Seek Better Drought Prediction. As published in The Professional Edge (July/August 2006, Issue 103), Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Saskatchewan.
Sauchyn, D., M. Khandekar and E.R. Garnett, 2005: The Science, Impacts and Monitoring of Drought in Western Canada, Proceedings of the 2004 Prairie Drought Workshop, Canadian Plains Research Centre, Regina, Sask.,101 pp.
Raddatz, R.L., 1993. Prairie agroclimate boundary-layer model: a simulation of the atmosphere/crop-soil interface. Atmosphere-Ocean, 31:4, 399-419.
Raddatz, R.L., 1989. An operational agrometeorological information system for the Canadian prairies. Climatological Bulletin, 23:3, 83-97.

Madhav L Khandekar. Canadian Prairie Drought, Climate Change and impact on future grain yield.

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