Presentations

Introduction

Maurice Borgeaud: Welcome Remarks & Overview of ESA EO Programmes & Missions

Siegfried Schubert: Overview of Workshop and Goals

Roger Pulwarty: Overview of GDIS Activities and Needs

Donald Wilhite: Managing Drought in a Changing Climate: Future Prospects

Causes of Drought by Region (Summaries – time scales, mechanisms, etc)

Brad Lyon: Drought in North and Central America

Sonia Seneviratne: Drought in Europe

Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca and Roberto Mechoso: Drought in Africa

Wenju Cai: Drought in Australasia

Matt Barlow: Drought in Southwest and Western Asia

Lixia Zhang and Tianun Zhou:  Drought in Monsoonal East Asia

Hugo Berbery:  Drought in South America

Case Studies (Mechanisms and Predictability)

Albert Van Dijk: Australia’s Millennium Drought and the Resulting Development of a Water Information System

Christa Peters-Lidard, David Mocko, Sujay Kumar, Mike Ek, Youlong Xia, Jiarui Dong: Drought Monitoring for Three North American Case Studies Based on the North American Land Data Assimilation System.

Johan Malherbe and Willem Landman: Recent Droughts in Africa: The Limpopo Basin

Alice Grimm:  A Recent South American Drought

Ricardo Trigo: The 2010 Russian Heat Wave                                                        

Martin Beniston: The 2003 European Heat Wave

Discussion (Siegfried Schubert, Wenju Cai, Sonia Seneviratne)

Drought Information Service Providers

Michael Hayes: Overview

Robert Stefanski: Drought Management and Policies: Status of WMO Drought Initiations.

Douglas Cripe: GEO: International Framework for GDIS

Micha Werner, Sophie Vermooten, Juergen Vogt, and Ad de Roo: DEWFORA: Forecasting droughts in Africa and linking to the EDO drought monitoring approach.

Anna V. Mescherskaya: Historical Drought Catalogue for the Former USSR Agriculture Regions

Cunjie Zhang: Drought Monitoring, Forecasting and Impacts Assessment in China.

Dasarath (Jaya) Jayasuriya (BoM Water Program): Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in Australia

Dennis Lettenmaier:  Hydrological Forecasting

Gustavo Goncalves: South American Drought Monitoring and Reconstruction of the Drought Record in South America

Abdou Ali: Drought Monitoring and Forecasting at AGHYMET, West Africa Region

Franco Molteni:  Rainfall Predictions with the ECMWF Monthly and Seasonal Forecast Systems

Jared Entin and Deborah Belvedere: NASA's Earth Science Global Drought (Assessment/Prediction) Capabilities

Kingtse Mo: NOAA/NCEP/CPC Drought Outlooks

Eric Wood: Experimental Hydrological Monitoring and Forecasting with a Focus on the US and Africa

Jin Huang:  Global MME Forecasts – US, ECMWF, APCC

User Needs and Capabilities (Regional and Larger Scales)

Liliana Nunez:  Monitoring Drought in Argentina

Jinlong Fan:  Dought Monitoring with Remote Sensing

Michel Verstraete: The European Drought Observatory (EDO)

James Verdin: Drought Information for Famine Early Warning

Gideon Galu: FEWSNET Agricultural Drought Domain and Monitoring Technology: Quantifying Lead Time Requirements

Margaret Nicholson: Assessing Drought Vulnerability to Agricultural and Social Sectors

Wu Bingfang:  Drought Monitoring Information System for China and its Application

Oscar Rojas and Felix Remboud:  FAO/MARS Agricultural Monitoring

Mark Svoboda: Focus on the Science / User Interface

Ben Lloyd-Hughes:  Global Drought Impacts upon the Business Community

Discussion (Michael Hayes, Cunjie Zhang, Margaret Nicholson)

Developing an Experimental GDIS

Will Pozzi: Elements of an Experimental Global Drought Information System

Richard Heim/Mike Brewer:  Global Drought Monitor Web Portal

Rogier Westerhoff and the GLOWASIS Consortium:  GLOWASIS - A Collaborative Project for Pre-validation of a GMES Global Water Scarcity Information Service

Discussion, panel (Kingtse Mo, Will Pozzi, Michael Hayes, Doug Cripe, Franco Molteni, Robert Stefanski )

Vikram Mehta: A Coordinated Case Study Approach – Overview and a Prototype System

Annarita Mariotti:  NOAA Drought Task Force: An Example of Coordinated Research on Case Studies

Ron Stewart: Drought Characterization/Catalog and Links to Case Studies

Discussion, panel (Siegfried Schubert, Michel Verstraete, Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, Vikram Mehta, Ron Stewart)

Wrap up (Siegfried Schubert and Pierre-Philippe Mathieu)