<p>Purpose of WCDR:</p><p>Global climate change has frequently affect many natural disasters such as floods, mudflows, and landslides.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>History:</p><p>Disaster Research Center (DRC), NTU was established on June 17th, 2003.</p><p>DRC changed the title and divisions as Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research (WCDR) on February 9th, 2010.</p><a href="http://www.wcdr.ntu.edu.tw/introduction.html" target="_blank">http://www.wcdr.ntu.edu.tw/introduction.html</a>