May 12-14, 2010
Inn at the Forks in Winnipeg
Session #1: Welcome and Introduction to Manitoba and overview of DRI
- Introduction to DRI (John Pomeroy, Ron Stewart)
- The Partnership Advisory Committee Final Report (Harvey Hill)
Session #2: Synthesis Activities DRI
- Towards Synthesizing our DRI Progress (Ron Stewart)
- Theme 1: Drought characterization (John Hanesiak)
- Theme 3: Drought prediction (Charles Lin)
- Theme 4: Drought comparisons (Barrie Bonsal)
Session #3: Atmospheric Drought Processes and regional water and energy cycling during the drought
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability associated with Prairie Droughts (Amir Shabbar, Barrie Bonsal and Kit Szeto)
- Diagnosing meteorological drought mechanisms with global and regional reanalysis data(John Gyakum)
- Meteorological diagnosis of the 1999-2005 Canadian prairies drought (Lisa Hryciw)
- Water Cycling and Hydroclimate Extremes in the Canadian Prairies (Kit Szeto)
- The atmosphere during drought over Edmonton (Ron Stewart/ William Henson)
- Clouds and drought: relationships from observations and a regional climate model(Henry Leighton)
Session #4: Drought Prediction, Land Atmosphere and Hydrologic Processes
- Research in Seasonal and Sub-seasonal Forecast at Environment Canada (Charles Lin)
- Water Cycle Prediction on the Prairies (Anthony Liu, Al Pietroniro, Brenda Toth)
- Prairie drought surface hydrology (John Pomeroy)
- Modelling drought in prairie watersheds (Kevin Shook)
- Watershed-scale modeling of groundwater - surface water interaction in the Canadian Prairies (Getachew Adem Mohammed, Masaki Hayashi)
- Spatial variability of Evapotranspiration during the prairie’s drought (Rob Armstrong)
- On the surface-convection feedback during drought periods on the Canadian prairies (Julian Brimelow/ John Hanesiak)
- Land Surface (Moisture Flux) Feedbacks on Drought and on Thunderstorms (Geoff Strong)
- Modelling soil moisture with the VIC model during drought (Lei Wen)
- The role of soil moisture initialization in drought prediction (Aaron Berg)
- Monitoring groundwater conditions from space during drought (Ken Snelgrove)
- Characterizing drought: groundwater, wetlands and lakes (Garth van der Kamp)
- Coupling Transport and Transformation Model with Land Surface Scheme SABAEHW: Application to the Canadian Prairies (Al Woodbury)
- Summary of the Prairie Drought Hydrology Workshop (John Pomeroy)
Session #6: Historical and Future Droughts and their impacts
- Corralling the Water Hole: Drought and water shortage impacts on the Canadian West (Bob Sanford)
- Everyone is Affected: Selections of drought characteristics, impacts and adaptations (Barrie Bonsal, Elaine Wheaton, Virginia Wittrock, Evan Siemens, Nick Nicolichuk)
- Development of agricultural drought indices, evaluation of PAMII moisture and ET estimates and crop yield forecasting on the Canadian Prairies using MODIS-NDVI data (Paul Bullock and Manasah Mkhabela)
- Adaptation as Resilience Building: A Policy Study of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Canadian Prairies (Hank Venema)
- Developing Early 21st Century Pacific Decadal Oscillation Projections (Suzan Lapp)
- Early 21st Century Southern Alberta Streamflow Projections from GLS Modeling of Inter-annual to Decadal Variability (Jeanine St. Jacques)
- A Proposed Prairie Water Supply Index for Drought (John Pomeroy and Kevin Shook)
Session #7: The 2009/2010 Drought
Session #8: Agencies and Programs with Interests in Supporting Drought Research DRI
- Manitoba Drought Management Program (Bob Harrison)
- Saskatchewan Drought Activities (Bart Oegema)
- Summary of the DRI User Workshops (Rick Lawford)
- Lessons from the DRI DEWS exercises (Phillip Harder)
Session #9: Selected Reports on droughts from other parts of the world DRI
- Extremes and GEWEX (Ron Stewart)
- Drought in Southeast Asia (Orn-Uma Polpanich)
- Drought in Northern Mexico (Andrea Munoz Hernandez)
- Drought in the USA (Richard Heim)
Session #11 Data Systems and Satellite Data Applications