Characterization and Summary of the 1999–2005 Canadian Prairie Drought

Hanesiak, John; Stewart, Ronald E.; Bonsal, Barrie; Harder, Phillip; Lawford, R. G.; Aider, Rabah; Amiro, B.D.; Atallah, Eyad H.; Barr, Alan G.; Black, T. A.; Bullock, Paul; Brimelow, Julian C.; Brown, Ross; Carmichael, Hannah; Derksen, Chris; Flanagan, Lawrence B.; Gachon, Philippe; Greene, H.; Gyakum, John R.; Henson, William; Hogg, Edward H.; Kochtubajda, Bohdan; Leighton, H.G.; Lin, Charles A.; Luo, Yi; McCaughey, J. H.; Meinert, Alison; Shabbar, Amir; Snelgrove, K. R.; Szeto, Kit K.; Trishchenko, Alexander P.; Kamp, Garth van der; Wang, Shusen; Wen, Lei; Wheaton, Elaine; Wielki, C.; Yang, Yan; Yirdaw, Sitotaw Z.; Zha, Tianshan

doi:10.1080/07055900.2011.626757

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“…Note that the legend in (a) is the same as that given in (c). period from 1999 to 2005 (Hanesiak et al, 2011); this event was most concentrated in the west and north, however it did affect southeastern Saskatchewan primarily in 2001 and 2003 (see Fig. 2 in Hanesiak et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 93%

Monitoring of near-surface gas geochemistry at the Weyburn, Canada, CO2-EOR site, 2001–2011

Beaubien

Jones

Gal

et al. 2013

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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Section: Isotopesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Monitoring of near-surface gas geochemistry at the Weyburn, Canada, CO2-EOR site, 2001–2011

Beaubien

Jones

Gal

et al. 2013

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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“…Bonsal et al (2011) provide a useful review of drought research in Canada. The recently completed DRI network was established to conduct a comprehensive study of the severe 1999-2005 Canadian prairie drought (Hanesiak et al, 2011;Stewart et al, 2011).…”

Section: Droughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Changes, including those listed above, have been pervasive, while the costs associated with recent hydroclimatic extreme events (e.g., floods, drought, and wildfire) have been increasing (e.g., Hanesiak et al, 2011;Pomeroy et al, 2015). The principal continental-scale drainages, the Mackenzie and Saskatchewan River systems, support a major area of Canada's food and energy production, mining, forestry, critical riverine and delta ecosystems, growing cities, rural and aboriginal communities, and freshwater supply to the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recent climatic, cryospheric, and hydrological changes over the interior of western Canada: a review and synthesis

DeBeer

Wheater

Carey

et al. 2016

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. It is well established that the Earth's climate system has warmed significantly over the past several decades, and in association there have been widespread changes in various other Earth system components. This has been especially prevalent in the cold regions of the northern midto high latitudes. Examples of these changes can be found within the western and northern interior of Canada, a region that exemplifies the scientific and societal issues faced in many other similar parts of the world, and where impacts have global-scale consequences. This region has been the geographic focus of a large amount of previous research on changing climatic, cryospheric, and hydrological regimes in recent decades, while current initiatives such as the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) introduced in this review seek to further develop the understanding and diagnosis of this change and hence improve the capacity to predict future change. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the observed changes in various Earth system components and a concise and up-to-date regional picture of some of the temporal trends over the interior of western Canada since the mid-or late 20th century. The focus is on air temperature, precipitation, seasonal snow cover, mountain glaciers, permafrost, freshwater ice cover, and river discharge. Important long-term observational networks and data sets are described, and qualitative linkages among the changing components are highlighted. Increases in air temperature are the most notable changes within the domain, rising on average 2 • C throughout the western interior since 1950. This increase in air temperature is associated with hydrologically important changes to precipitation regimes and unambiguous declines in snow cover depth, persistence, and spatial extent. Consequences of warming air temperatures have caused mountain glaciers to recede at all latitudes, permafrost to thaw at its southern limit, and active layers over permafrost to thicken. Despite these changes, integrated effects on stream flow are complex and often offsetting. Following a review of the current literature, we provide insight from a network of northern research catchments and other sites detailing how climate change confounds hydrological responses at smaller scales, and we recommend several priority research areas that will be a focus of continued work in CCRN. Given the complex interactions and process responses to climate change, it is argued that further conceptual understanding and quantitative diagnosis of the mechanisms of change over a range of scales is required before projections of future change can be made with confidence.

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“…Recent reports by the Canadian Drought Research Initiative stated that the 2001 and 2002 droughts in Canada covered massive areas and were part of an unusually large, severe, and lengthy dry period. 47,50 With respect to climatic variability impacts, significant correlations were found between NDVI values and the climatic variables (precipitation and temperature). Specifically, the correlations between NDVI and climatic variables varied with ecozones.…”

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confidence: 94%

Analysis of vegetation dynamics and climatic variability impacts on greenness across Canada using remotely sensed data from 2000 to 2009

Fang

Zhu

Chen

et al. 2014

J. Appl. Remote Sens

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Characterization and Summary of the 1999–2005 Canadian Prairie Drought

Cited by 66 publications

References 75 publications

Monitoring of near-surface gas geochemistry at the Weyburn, Canada, CO2-EOR site, 2001–2011

Monitoring of near-surface gas geochemistry at the Weyburn, Canada, CO2-EOR site, 2001–2011

Recent climatic, cryospheric, and hydrological changes over the interior of western Canada: a review and synthesis

Analysis of vegetation dynamics and climatic variability impacts on greenness across Canada using remotely sensed data from 2000 to 2009

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