Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, NTU

Intodurction

Purpose of WCDR

• Global climate change has frequently affect many natural disasters such as floods, mudflows, and landslides.
• Due to global climate change, recent typhoons-Nari, Kalmaegi, Morakot, Fanapi, and Megi, and 88-flood catastrophe have incurred enormous damages and life loss in Taiwan. 
• Reinforce international communication and academic-industry collaboration, provide high quality service to respond the impact of global climate change in order to efficiently reduce disaster damages.

History

• Disaster Research Center (DRC), NTU was established on June 17th, 2003.
• DRC changed the title and divisions as Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research (WCDR) on February 9th, 2010.

WCDR Introduction

Main Projects

New Taipei City Emergency Response Project

A Cutting-Edge Steering Research Project on Climate Change in Taiwan: Integration of  Hydro-meteorology, Disaster Reduction, and Smart Platform

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