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  • COP15, the future decided now The climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009 is a crucial step in a process dating back to 1992 and the UN's 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro. Called 'COP15' for short, it will be the most important global climate change meeting ever. Watch an introduction film.
    European Commission, October 15, 2009

  • New WATCH Technical report released Technical Report number 19 about Drought analysis for the Upper-Metuje and Upper-Sázava catchments (Czech Republic) using the hydrological model HBV (ca 15Mb).
    WATCH, September 24, 2009

  • Paper published in HESS: Global-scale analysis of river flow alterations due to water withdrawals and reservoirs WATCH member Petra Döll from the Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt has written the paper Global-scale analysis of river flow alterations due to water withdrawals and reservoirs (Döll, P., Fiedler, K., Zhang, J.), and has been published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Discuss., 6, 4773-4812, 2009). This paper is relevant to Work Package 1.4.
    WATCH / Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, July 03, 2009

  • WATCH Workshop and Field Tour Glomma Picture Gallery WATCH Workshop and Field Tour were being held from September 15-18, 2008 in the Glomma Region (N). To watch the pictures, click on slideshow when you are in the photo album.
    Henny van Lanen, Wageningen UR, WATCH, September 24, 2008

  • Trieste Summer School on Hydrological Drought, watch the pictures Trieste Summer School on Hydrological Drought was held from June 22 to 27, 2008 in Trieste, Italy. To watch the pictures, click on slideshow when you are in the photo album.
    WATCH, July 03, 2008

  • IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water released Paper has been released by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). This constitutes an important addition to the 4th IPCC Assessment Report.
    IPCC, April 14, 2008

  • International Summer School on Hydrological Drought & Global Change The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with partners of, and with funding provided through, the CEC project "WATCH", are organizing the International Summer School on Hydrological Drought & Global Change, to be held from 22 to 27 June 2008 in Trieste, Italy.
    WATCH, March 26, 2008

  • UK Summer 2007 Floods: A Very Singular Event A new scientific study of the wet summer of 2007 confirms that the floods were a very singular event and does not support the idea that the exceptional river flooding was linked to climate change. This conclusion is contained within a comprehensive hydrological appraisal of the summer 2007 floods carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
    CEH - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, March 11, 2008

  • UK Met Office looks to development of 10 year climate forecasts to strengthen contingency planning On the day that marks 25 years since the Thames Barrier was first raised to protect London from possible flooding, experts from the UK Met Office say that the next quarter century could see greater frequency of extreme weather events along with more torrential rain, particularly during winter months.
    UK Met Office, February 01, 2008

  • WATCH Meeting November 2007 In November 2007, the EU WATCH General Assembly was held in Barcelona, Spain. Members of the Work Block sessions discussed about data and exchanged information.
    WATCH, November 30, 2007