Characterization and Summary of the 1999–2005 Canadian Prairie Drought
| Autor: | Barrie Bonsal, A. Meinert, Alexander P. Trishchenko, Elaine Wheaton, C. Derksen, John M. Hanesiak, R. Aider, H.E. Carmichael, H. G. Leighton, Brian D. Amiro, K. Snelgrove, Lawrence B. Flanagan, J.H. McCaughey, John R. Gyakum, Amir Shabbar, Philippe Gachon, Ronald E. Stewart, Rick Lawford, Sen Wang, Yi Luo, Lei Wen, Ross Brown, Y. Yang, G. van der Kamp, Bohdan Kochtubajda, Alan G. Barr, William Henson, Eyad H. Atallah, C. Lin, Edward H. Hogg, Kit K. Szeto, Paul R. Bullock, Julian C. Brimelow, Phillip Harder, S. Yirdaw, T. A. Black, H. Greene, Tianshan Zha, C. Wielki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Atmosphere-Ocean. 49:421-452 |
| ISSN: | 1480-9214 0705-5900 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07055900.2011.626757 |
| Popis: | Droughts are among the world's most costly natural disasters and collectively affect more people than any other form of natural disaster. The Canadian Prairies are very susceptible to drought and have experienced this phenomenon many times. However, the recent 1999–2005 Prairie drought was one of the worst meteorological, agricultural and hydrologic droughts over the instrumental record. It also had major socio-economic consequences, adding up to losses in the billions of dollars. This recent drought was the focus of the Drought Research Initiative (DRI), the first integrated network focusing on drought in Canada. This article addresses some of the key objectives of DRI by providing a collective summary, understanding and synthesis of the 1999–2005 drought. Bringing together the many datasets used in this study was in itself a major accomplishment. This drought exhibited many important, and sometimes surprising, features. This includes, for example, (1) a non-steady large-scale atmospheric circulation (an... |
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