Research & Assessment

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These activities provide scientifically rigorous and unbiased reviews of the state of knowledge on climate processes and impacts on vulnerable systems, both environmental and human, and identification of knowledge gaps and international coordination needs.

• World Climate Research Programme
• Earth System Physics Climate Research (ICTP)
• World Water Assessment Programme
• Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change
• Quo Vadis Aquifers
• Worldwide Hydrogeological Mapping and Assessments Programme
• Study of Climate Change and the Evidence in the Geological Record
• Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP)
• Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data Sets (FRIEND)
• Ecohydrology Programme
• Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Programme (GLOBEC)
• The Ocean in a High CO₂ World