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Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Reporting in Alberta
Daniel Itenfisu and Ralph Wright
Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development
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Presentation Overview
• The Alberta Agricultural Drought Risk Management Plan
• Meteorological Stations expansion
• Drought Indices
• Data Quality Control and Data Filling
• Data Delivery: Agro Climatic Information Service (web)
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The AB Agriculture Drought Risk Management Plan
(ADRMP) • The plan provides a framework for a
coordinated, pro-active approach to mitigate the effects of drought in the agricultural areas of Alberta.
• Partners - Alberta Agriculture, Alberta Environment, AFSC, PFRA, Counties
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ADRMP Plan Strategies
• Drought Monitoring and Reporting and analysis: onset, severity and extent, ending, forecast …
• Drought Preparedness — taking action before a drought to increase the level of readiness by all stakeholders.
• Drought Response — taking action during and immediately following a drought to reduce its impacts.
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The Drought reporting system soon recognized the inadequacy of the existing weather data in the province
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History Current StatusHistory Current Status
Alberta Weather Stations Prior to 2002
Networks owned by -
MSC, AENV and SRD
Mainly Measure -
•Precipitation
•Temperature
•Humidity
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History and Current StatusHistory and Current Status
Near Real Time Network
-2002 to 2003 ARD, Fed’s added 36 AGDM stations
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History and Current StatusHistory and Current Status
Near Real Time Network
-2003 to 2004 ARD added 11 IMCIN stations
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Standard Meteorological Station
Barnwell AGDM
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All Season Precipitation
10-m Wind Speed and DirectionAir Temperature and Humidity.
Solar Radiation
Soil Moisture and Temperature
Satellite Telemetry
Parameters Measured at ARD’s Meteorological Stations
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History and Current StatusHistory and Current Status
Near Real Time Network
-2003ARD and AENV added 5 AEDM stations
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History and Current StatusHistory and Current Status
Near Real Time Network
-2007 to 2008 ARD, AFSC, AENV, Fed’s added 67 AGCM stations
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Major Network Expansion
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Alberta Historical Weather Data
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Percentile Index SPI
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Percentile Index SPI
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Stations Density and Drought Indicators
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Weather Data Second Generation QAQC:
Providing:
• quality assurance and quality control
• filling missing and invalid data
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Station Metadata
• Controlled through the Station Maintenance Application (forcing data base integrity) and the application is tied to QA/QC and Web delivery
Station MetadataStation Metadata
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Station MetadataStation Metadata
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Station MetadataStation Metadata
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Station MetadataStation Metadata
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QAQC Flow Logic Diagram:(Hourly Data)
Raw Reading
QC’dReading
ValidationMetrics
Data Filling Computations
ValidationFlags
Missing Data
Manualover-ride? invalid valid
valid
QA/QC Application (automatic)
QA/QC Operator (Human)
yes
no
invalid
ValidationFlags
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Quality Control and Quality AssuranceQuality Control and Quality Assurance
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Quality Control and Quality AssuranceQuality Control and Quality Assurance
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Data Filling • Attempt to fill all time series using only
valid raw readings
• Flag every record• If filling fails, leave values missing.
Quality Control and Quality AssuranceQuality Control and Quality Assurance
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Filling Priority Sequence
Quality Control and Quality AssuranceQuality Control and Quality Assurance
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www.agric.gov.ab.ca/acis
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Station Viewer
www.agric.gov.ab.ca/acis
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Thank-you
Bow Island North IMCINwww.agric.gov.ab.ca/acis