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Discuss the significance of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and its core projects in the understanding of climatic change.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Climatology

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) was set up in 1980 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU, since 2018 the International Science Council); the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO joined as a sponsor in 1993.

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  • Mandate and Architecture
  • Foundation Experiments
  • The Four Core Projects
  • CLIVAR — Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (1995)
  • GEWEX — Global Energy and Water Exchanges (1990)
  • SPARC — Stratosphere–troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (1992)
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