PRIORITY 6.3
Global Change and Ecosystems
Project Duration:
01.02.2007 - 31.01.2011
Welcome to the EU WATCH website
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The Global Water Cycle is an integral part of the Earth System. It plays a central role in global atmospheric circulations, controlling the global energy cycle (through latent heat) as well as the carbon, nutrient and sediment cycles. Globally, the supply of fresh water far exceeds human requirements. However, by the end of the 21st century, these requirements begin to approach the total available water. Of course, regionally, the water demand – for agriculture, and domestic and industrial use – already exceeds supply. |
This Integrated Project Water and Global Change (WATCH), funded under the EU FP6, will bring together the hydrological, water resources and climate communities to analyse, quantify an predict the components of the current and future global water cycles and related water resources states; evaluate their uncertainties and clarify the overall vulnerability of global water resources related to the main societal and economic sectors. |
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Latest:
- WATCH Technical Report Number 21: Methodology for analysing the space-time development of large-scale floods at the river basin, regional and continental scales
- 12-16 April 2010: Training course: Classifications in atmospheric sciences and their applications, University of Augsburg
- WATCH Technical Report Number 20: Hydrological drought characteristics of the Nedožery sub catchment, Upper Nitra, Slovakia, based on HBV modelling
- WATCH General Assembly November 2009 in Potsdam
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