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Welcome to the DRI Data Legacy Portal

This data portal faciltitates access to the DRI data legacy. This data is a result of the work DRI has on the topic of drought and is being made available to facilitate continued work on this critical topic. All datasets have validated ISO 19115 standard metadata and where possible maximum effort has been made to make data available for download and visualization through the centralized and distruibuted data archive system.

For all inquires regarding the site and data legacy system please contact Phillip Harder and for all inquires regarding the individual datasets please contact the respective authority.



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Name of  Dataset

Data Source*

Time Period

Attributes

Hydrological
 Kenaston Soil Moisture Mesonet
  • Precipitation and soil moisture measurements from a 24 station mesonet for the 2007, 2008, 2009 growing seasons. The sites are located in an agricultural area southwest of Kenaston, Saskatchewan.
 Alain Pietoniro/Brenda Toth/Danette Bilodeau 09/05/2007 - 27/11/2009

Land Surface
Prairie Census Agricultural Region Yield Deviation
  • Annual yield deviations of wheat, barley, canola and pea harvests on the prairies
  Paul Bullock  01/01/1976 - 31/12/2006
NDVI data for Prairies (May-August) 2000-2006
  • 10-day composites of NDVI for Census Ag Regions for the 2000 through 2006 growing seasons
 Paul Bullock 01/05/2000 -  31/08/2006
Western North American Land Surface Dataset
  • 6 hourly estimates of various land surace parameters including soil moisture, ice content, snow properties and canopy parameters from a CLASS run driven by bias corrected NARR data from 1979 to 2008
 Aaron Berg 01/01/1979 - 31/12/2008 data

Modelling and Prediction
PAMII Model Soil Moisture Output (1998-2005)
  • PAMII output for locations across the prairies from 1998-2005 including soil moisture, evapotranspiration, relative humidity and precipitation
 Julian Brimelow/John Hanesiak 05/04/1998 - 30/09/2005 data
PAM2nd Wheat Study Output
  • The inputs (meterological and soil moisture data from various prarire sites) and outputs (components of evapotranspiration and soil moisture) of the Prairie Agrometeorological Model (PAM2nd). 
 Paul Bullock 5/5/2003 - 12/9/2006 kmlGoogle Map
NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) data sets
  • The NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) data sets contains global 3-hourly, daily, monthly/3-hourly, and monthly averages of surface longwave and shortwave radiative parameters on a 1deg x1 deg grid.
 Heather Greene/NASA 01/07/1983 - 30/06/2007

Radiation
West Nose Creek, energy flux data, 2005
  • Energy flux data collected in the West Nose Creek Watershed north of Calgary, Alberta.
 Masaki Hayashi 1/7/2005 -  6/10/2005
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Remote Sensing Imagery
Radar Dataset
  • Weather radar dataset for the Canadian Praires during the drought period.
 Ron Stewart/Environment Canada 31/10/2000 - 2/11/2005 kml Google Map
GRACE Total Water Storage Anomalies
  • Total Water Storage Anomalies in cm of water equivalent thickness from GRACE satelites
 Sitotaw Yirdaw/NASA 01/04/2002 - 30/05/2006

Surface Meteorology
 West Nose Creek Hydrometeorological data
  • Meteorological and hydrological field data collected from West Nose Creek north of Calgary, AB.
  Masaki Hyashi
  01/04/2003 - 31/03/2010
  
Environment Canada, St. Denis meteorological station data
  • Near surface climate data recorded at St. Denis National Wildlife Area at a 10m tower
 Rob Armstrong/Kevin Shook/Chris Spence (EC)  28/01/1999 - 30/06/2006
Monthly Gridded SPI and PDSI (1901-2005) over the Canadian Prairies
  • Monthly SPI and PDSI indices on 10km grid derived from the ANUSPLIN dataset from 1901-2005
 Barrie Bonsal/ Elaine Wheaton 01/01/1901-31/12/2005 data

Upper Atmosphere
 
      
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