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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

Science Tidbits

9 October 2008 - Future Risk of Hurricanes: the Role of Climate Change

20 June 2008 - NASA launches satellite to keep a weather, climate eye open

1 May 2008 -Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector (Nature)

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Drought Workshop in conjunction with NOAA's 33rd Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop; 20-24 October 2008

Western Boundary Current Workshop Announcement 15-17 January 2009; Register NOW!!

U.S. CLIVAR Summit Symposium presentations and Summit documents are available online

First announcement for Ocean Obs '09
(21-24 September)

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