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The U.S. CLIVAR Drought Working Group was formed in December 2006.

Drought Working Group
last updated February 4, 2011
Tom Delworth NOAA GFDL
Rong Fu Georgia Institute of Technology
Dave Gutzler (co-chair) University of New Mexico
Wayne Higgins NOAA/CPC
Marty Hoerling NOAA/CDC
Randy Koster NASA/GSFC
Arun Kumar NOAA/CPC
Dennis Lettenmaier University of Washington
Kingtse Mo NOAA CPC
Sumant Nigam University of Maryland
Roger Pulwarty NOAA- NIDIS Director
David Rind NASA - GISS
Siegfried Schubert (co-chair) NASA GSFC
Richard Seager Columbia University/LDEO
Mingfang Ting Columbia University/LDEO
Ning Zeng University of Maryland
Additional Contributing Scientists
Bradfield Lyon International Research Institute for Climate
Victor O. Magana Mexico
Tim Palmer ECMWF
Ronald Stewart Canada
Josef Syktus Australia
Jose Marengo CPTEC/INPE
Jean-Philippe Boulanger University of Buenos Aires
Hugo Berbery University of Maryland

Terms of Reference

  • Propose a working definition of drought and related model predictands of drought;
  • Coordinate evaluations of existing relevant model simulations;
  • Suggest new experiments (coupled and uncoupled) designed to address some of the outstanding uncertainties mentioned above;
  • Coordinate and encourage the analysis of observational data sets to reveal antecedent linkages of multi-year drought; and
  • Organize a community workshop to present and discuss the results

 

 

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

More Announcements

Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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