2024-05-182024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/714768<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>成立緣起: 本校於92年6月17日成立「綜合災害研究中心」,經6年半與歷任主任 (陳泰然副校長、譚義績教授、李清勝教授、郭鴻基教授)努力,目前已獲得豐碩成果並完成階段性任務。 99年2月9日,變更中心名稱及組織章程「氣候天氣災害研究中心」。 成立目的: 建立我國天氣引致水相關災害高階研究能量,整合防災之跨領域專家學者包含社會、人文、科學、工程、教育、資訊、醫學、管理,進行氣象、水文、土石流與坡地災害研究。 ​加強國際交流與產學合作,提供高品質產出與服務以因應全球氣候變遷之衝擊,提昇減災整備應變復原之效益。Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research