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The U.S. CLIVAR Drought Working Group was formed
in December 2006. They are
Drought Working Group last updated
April 15, 2008
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
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