WCRP Projects
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The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project was established in 2000 to stimulate, support, and coordinate research into the processes by which the cryosphere interacts with the rest of the climate system. As a sensitive component of the climate system, the cryosphere may provide key indicators of climate change, and CliC will focus on identifying patterns and rates of change in cryospheric parameters. http://clic.npolar.no/ |
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CLIVAR addresses Climate Variability and Predictability, with a particular focus on the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate. It works closely with its companion WCRP projects on issues such as the role of the land surface, snow and ice and the role of stratospheric processes in climate. The challenges for CLIVAR are to develop our understanding of climate variability, to apply this to provide useful prediction of climate variability and change through the use of improved climate models, and to monitor and detect changes in our climate system. http://www.clivar.org/ |
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The goal of the Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment (GEWEX) is to reproduce and predict, by means of suitable models, the variations of the global hydrological regime, its impact on atmospheric and surface dynamics, and variations in regional hydrological processes and water resources and their response to changes in the environment, such as the increase in greenhouse gases. http://www.gewex.org/ |
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Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) was founded in 1993 with the mission to 'understand and represent the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere and its interactions with the climate system. The project concentrates on the interaction of dynamical, radiative and chemical processes. Activities include the construction of a stratospheric reference climatology and the improvement of understanding of trends in temperature, ozone and water vapour in the stratosphere. http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/SPARC/index.html |
