Changing Water Cycle

Changing Water Cycle is a NERC funded research programme which will develop an integrated, quantitative understanding of the changes taking place in the global water cycle. The programme has five interconnected projects.

Present and future climate and land use changes will affect the global hydrological cycle; this in turn will generate a range of environmental impacts. We need to reduce the uncertainty in our predictions of water-related variables such as regional precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, hydrological storage and fluxes.

The Changing Water Cycle programme will deliver part of NERC's contribution to the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) partnership.

In brief

Timing:

2010-2014

Budget:

£10.1m from NERC over four years

Related Projects:

Storm Risk Mitigation

• British Geological Survey
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• Imperial College London
• Newcastle University
• University College London
• University of East Anglia
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter
• University of Leicester
• University of Oxford
• University of Reading
• University of Southampton