Climate research for the twenty-first century

摘要

How did the programme begin? The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) was established in 1980 under the joint sponsorship of the International Science Council (former the International Council for Science) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).This was in recognition of the burgeoning science around understanding how the climate works how and why it varies, and of early papers identifying potential climate change as carbon dioxide levels increase. The need for an organizational framework for international cooperation in major field experiments and emerging modelling studies was a key driver. It meant that the WCRP was well-placed to provide the scientific evidence base for the First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC), published in 1990.