The Drought Research Initiative: A Comprehensive Examination of Drought over the Canadian Prairies
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Abstract
The Canadian Prairies are often subjected to drought, and it is sometimes catastrophic.The most recent event occurred over the period 1999-2005, and it produced some of the driest conditions in the historical record.To address such droughts, the Drought Research Initiative (DRI) network was established.The particular focus of DRI was to understand better the factors that led to, sustained and ended this recent drought, including its internal structure, and to contribute to the better prediction of such events.To accomplish this objective, the drought was considered from several perspectives involving the atmosphere, the land surface and sub-surface; the role of vegetation was also considered.This drought was unusual in that its large-scale forcing was quite variable over its duration; regions of record high precipitation sometimes occurred simultaneously across the Prairies, and cloud fields were common.It, nonetheless, produced some of the greatest reduction in sub-surface moisture on record and led to major declines in river flows.The DRI research community from across the country, furthermore, worked closely with many partners affected by the drought so that they are better able to cope with such events in the future.This article provides a brief overview of this drought's characteristics as well as DRI's objectives and key scientific issues.It also summarizes key results from each of the articles in this special issue and ends with comments on DRI's overall contributions.RSUM [Traduit par la rdaction] Les Prairies canadiennes sont souvent touches par des scheresses et celles-ci sont parfois catastrophiques.L'vnement le plus rcent est survenu durant la priode 1999-2005 et a produit certaines des conditions les plus sches jamais enregistres.Afin d'tudier ces scheresses, le Rseau de recherche sur la scheresse (DRI) a t cr.L'objectif premier du DRI tait de mieux comprendre les facteurs qui ont donn naissance cette scheresse, qui l'ont entretenu et qui y ont mis fin, y compris sa structure interne, et de contribuer mieux prvoir ces vnements.Pour atteindre cet objectif, la scheresse a t examine de diffrents points de vue prenant en considration l'atmosphre, la surface de la terre et la subsurface tout en tenant compte du rle de la vgtation.Cette scheresse tait inhabituelle en ce que son forage grande chelle a t assez variable au cours de sa dure; certaines rgions des prairies ont en mme temps reu des prcipitations record et les champs de nuages taient frquents.Elle a nanmoins produit certaines des plus importantes rductions de l'humidit souterraine jamais enregistres et a occasionn des diminutions marques du dbit des cours d'eau.Les chercheurs du DRI d'un bout l'autre du pays ont en outre travaill troitement avec plusieurs partenaires touchs par la scheresse afin que ceux-ci soient mieux en mesure d'affronter de tels vnements dans le futur.Le prsent article donne un bref aperu des caractristiques de cette scheresse ainsi que des objectifs du DRI et des principales questions scientifiques auxquelles il s'intresse.Il rsume aussi les rsultats cls de chacun des articles publis dans ce numro spcial et se termine par des commentaires sur les contributions gnrales du DRI.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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