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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

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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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