Drought Working Group
The US CLIVAR Drought Working Group was formed in 2006 and concluded in 2009.
| Tom Delworth | NOAA GFDL |
| Rong Fu | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Dave Gutzler (co-chair) | University of New Mexico |
| Wayne Higgins | NOAA/CPC |
| Marty Hoerling | NOAA/CDC |
| Randy Koster | NASA/GSFC |
| Arun Kumar | NOAA/CPC |
| Dennis Lettenmaier | University of Washington |
| Kingtse Mo | NOAA CPC |
| Sumant Nigam | University of Maryland |
| Roger Pulwarty | NOAA- NIDIS Director |
| David Rind | NASA - GISS |
| Siegfried Schubert (co-chair) | NASA GSFC |
| Richard Seager | Columbia University/LDEO |
| Mingfang Ting | Columbia University/LDEO |
| Ning Zeng | University of Maryland |
| Bradfield Lyon | International Research Institute for Climate |
| Victor O. Magana | Mexico |
| Tim Palmer | ECMWF |
| Ronald Stewart | Canada |
| Josef Syktus | Australia |
| Jose Marengo | CPTEC/INPE |
| Jean-Philippe Boulanger | University of Buenos Aires |
| Hugo Berbery | University of Maryland |
Terms of Reference
- Propose a working definition of drought and related model predictions 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.