Uk National Plan For Gewex The Global Energy And Water Cycle Experiment

This collaborative book aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to global climate, the way it is currently changing, the role of earth, air and satellite observation and monitoring, and subsequent climate modelling. It focuses on the interaction between natural and anthropogenic human- made change factors. The book emphasizes the importance of capturing climatic data and the use of that data in computer-based climatic modelling.

Describes various UK global change initiatives based upon the Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change (comprising UK Research Councils, British National Space Centre, and Meteorological Office) and the UK Global Environmental Research Office.

Hydrology and Global Environmental Change presents the hydrological contribution to, and consequences of, global environmental change. Assuming little or no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the book looks at the main processes of global environmental change - global scale processes, large regional processes, repetitive processes - and how the hydrological cycle, processes and regimes impact on GEC and vice-versa.

On cover & title page: Megascience: the OECD forum