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Please find below online resources that may interest both members of the the IAH Commission on Groundwater & Climate Change (IAH-CGCC) and those working toward the IAH-CGCC's goals. If you have relevant material you wish to cited on the IAH-CGCC's webpages, please send details and links to the Commission Chairs. To help browsers find what they want, resources are grouped in 3 categories:

1. online databases
2. reports & discussion
3. project websites

1. online databases

hydrological observations

Global River Discharge Database: http://www.rivdis.sr.unh.edu/
Global Runoff Data Centre: http://grdc.bafg.de/servlet/is/943/
International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre: http://www.igrac.net/
Gravity Recovery & Climate Experiment (GRACE): http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/
Global Soil Moisture Data Bank: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/

climate datasets – observations and simulations

KNMI Climate Explorer: http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere
Climate Research Unit (University of East Anglia): http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/
University of Delaware Climate Resource Data: http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_UDEL_CSD.html
Introduction to climate dynamics and climate modelling (online textbook) http://stratus.astr.ucl.ac.be/textbook/index.html

water resource data

FAO AquaStat: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stm
FAO Review of World Water Resources by Country: http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4473e/y4473e00.htm
Tabulated estimates of global and national freshwater use (Shiklomanov): http://webworld.unesco.org/water/ihp/db/shiklomanov/part'3/_Read'me.html
UNEP Vital water graphics http://www.unep.org/dewa/assessments/ecosystems/water/vitalwater/
IAEA Water Isotope System for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Electronic Retrieval (WISER) http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_resources_ISOHIS2.html
IAEA Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP) http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/GNIP/IHS_GNIP.html
IAEA Global Network of Isotopes in Rivers (GNIR) http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_resources_GNIR2.html

remotely sensed hydrological observations

TAMSAT - Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite and other data: http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~tamsat/
TIGER Initiative - application of remote sensing data to water resources in Africa: http://www.tiger.esa.int/
POSTEL Soil Moisture: http://postel.mediasfrance.org/en/BIOGEOPHYSICAL-PRODUCTS/Soil-Moisture/
POSTEL Precipitation: http://postel.mediasfrance.org/en/BIOGEOPHYSICAL-PRODUCTS/Precipitation/
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/

carbon storage

European Potential for GEological STorage of CO2 from Fossil Fuel Combustion (GESTCO) http://www.bgr.de/b123/e_gestco.htm
Natural Analogues for the Storage of CO2 in the Geological Environment http://www.bgs.ac.uk/nascent/home.html
Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage (SACS) - Sleipner field http://www.iku.sintef.no/projects/IK23430000/

2. reports & discussion

online journals & discussions

Hydrology & Earth System Sciences http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/volumes_and_issues.html
Hydrological Research Letters http://tm.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hwintl/
Water SA http://www.wrc.org.za/publications_watersa.htm
Directory of Open-Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

CO2 Climate Report http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/saib/climate/docs/ccd_/sections/10_e.html

international (and national) programme websites

UNESCO-IHP GRAPHIC (Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change) Programme http://www.unesco.org/water/ihp/graphic/
BGR/GEUS Groundwater and Climate Change: Challenges and Possibilities http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/water/denmark/rapporter/groundwater_and_%20climate_change_071108.pdf
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/index.htm
IPCC Special Report on The Regional Impacts of Climate Change http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/regional/index.htm
UN Environment Program - climate change http://climatechange.unep.net/
Global Climate Change Student Guide http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/contents.html
Climate Change - Data and Images http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/co2hansen/
United Kingdom Climate Impacts Program www.ukcip.org.uk
US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/default.htm
Government of Canada’s programme on climate change impacts and adaptation http://www.adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/

3. project websites

INQUA Palaeogroundwater Group http://inqua.umb.no/palgw/Members.doc
Global Water System Project http://www.gwsp.org/
Assessment of Pollution Status and Vulnerability of Water Aquifers of African Cities (UNESCO/IHP) http://www.unep.org/groundwaterproject/
Water - Africa, south of the Sahara (IRC) http://www.irc.nl/page/215
African Water Page (The Water Page) http://www.thewaterpage.com/
Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council http://www.wsscc.org/
World Water Council http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/