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

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

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