The North American Drought Monitor Status in Canada

1. The North American Drought Monitor Status in Canada Presented by: E. G. (Ted) O’Brien To The North American Drought Monitor Workshop Mexico City, Mexico October 18, 2006

2. Objectives of the Presentation The primary objective of this presentation is to update you on the advances, challenges and directions of the NADM work in Canada: • Team building • Data sourcing and access • Indicators • Authorship • Future Directions

3. Team building • Departmental Climate Risk Committee meets bi-weekly throughout the growing season. • National Land and Water Information Service (NLWIS) • Maintained existing relationships with provincial contacts.

4. What is the National Land and Water Information Service? • Easy and timely access to detailed geospatial data, information, tools, applications and GIS infrastructure. • Capability to integrate land, soil, water, climate and biodiversity data from different sources using GIS technology and provide assistance to access the information through the enterprise NLWIS-GIS. • Service to Agriculture nationally and will collaborate with other federal government departments, provincial, territorial and municipal governments, NGOs and the private sector.

5. NLWIS will provide: • Applications that meet user needs to support decision making. • Data that is current, accurate and at an appropriate scale. • Collaboration with other governments, industries and farm groups that have a need for and ownership of land and water information. • IM/IT infrastructurebuilt on GeoConnections principles. This will be a network of independent computers and databases accessible through the Internet which are housed at AAFC and its many partner agencies. • Expertisethat includes knowledge management, the capacity to interpret the information and to collect data, and maintain the land and water information service.

6. Service Matrix

7. Automated Real Time/ Near Real Time Quality Assurance /Quality Control (QAQC) An automated real time/near real time QA/QC system Identify suspicious records Automatic correction and missing records filling as well as manual inspection

8. Data sources • Environment Canada • NRCan’s Canadian Forestry Service & Provincial Forestry station data • Other Provincial networks • Crop Insurance

9. QA/QC Components • Range Check: to check if the values are within the acceptable range limits • Temporal Check: to check if the rate of changes are within the acceptable limits • Spatial Check: to check if a value is too distinct from surrounding values

10. Quality States • Valid • rarely checked by a human • Suspect (2 Levels of Suspect Data ) • Needs to be validated or filled • Invalid • needs to be filled • Missing • needs to be filled

11. Data source 2 Data source 1 Data source 3 Decoding & Formatting QAQC Checks Raw Data with Flag Range Temporal Spatial QAQC bulletin Corrected & Filled Data Database Manual Inspection • Manually change • Interpolate • Keep the records Make Decision Gridded Data Mapping

13. Moving to National Coverage:March, 2007

14. NAIS NLWIS Canadian National Agroclimate Network AACF-NAIS vision for a unified source of climate datafor agriculture Canadian Forestry Service & Provincial Forestry Stns Environment Canada RMCQ & Other Provincial Near Real Time Agroclimate Data (Funded) Private (e.g. OWN) Crop Insurance Environment Canada Data Management Framework QA/QC DroughtWatch NRT Database Clients & Contributors National Gridded Dataset Metadata Historic Archived Normals Web Available Products

24. 2006 Census will update impact assessments.

26. Defining Drought across Canada ?

27. Internet Map Server

28. Components of Canada’s National Drought Strategy • Drought Research • Drought Monitoring and Reporting • Drought Education and Preparedness • Drought Response Reference: Draft Framework for a National AAFC Drought Strategy

29. Questions?