Global water and climate science research and analytics
Water is key to the development and security of our planet. Changes in water availability because of growing demands and climate change require global partnerships to find solutions.
Our mission is to organise global research in hydrology and climate science to benefit governments and populations in need. PCI is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) organisation that brings together scientists and experts from around the world to shed light on water and climate risks and to work with NGOs and government agencies to mitigate those risks.
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We carry out fundamental research to understand how the water cycle is changing with climate and how this manifests in water risks such as floods and droughts. We translate this research into applications to understand how these changes impact on water resource, agriculture, power generation, land use and the environment.
Addressing critical climate and water challenges is possible with the best science and data
Our research leadership team bring decades of experience to bear on one of the greatest challenges of our time. We collaborate with academics, scientists, and practitioners across the world to solve global water problems.
Professor Eric F. Wood
Professor Eric F. Wood, co-founder of PCI, passed on November 3, 2021. Eric made tremendous contributions to the hydrological sciences over the past 4 decades, which have been recognized by many awards and honors. His passing is a great loss to the hydrology and climate science communities, and to PCI. Memorials to Eric can be found at Princeton University and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Prof. Eric Wood … “major advances he has made toward process-based representation of global hydrology through developing hyper-resolution models and enhancing them dynamically with remotely sensed observations using novel methods of data assimilation.”
— European Geosciences Union
Prof. Justin Sheffield … “advancing hydrologically coherent analyses of drought across time and space scales, and for pioneering the development of integrated drought monitoring tools for food-insecure countries”
— American Meteorological Society
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