Research Focus and Directions - Three Research Groups：

1. Climate Science：

(1) Development of a climate model suite

(2) Climate change and climate variability

(3) Projection of future climate

(4) Environmental impacts of climate change

2. Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry

(1) Physico-chemical interaction between urban air pollution and low cloud

(2) Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategy Formulation for Heat Stress and Air Pollutants in Taiwan Society

(3) Long-term observation of atmospheric composition in East Asia with implications for regional climate changes

3. Hydrospheric Science

(1) Coral Reef Ecosystems Oceanography Survey (CREOS) and South East Asia Time-series Study (SEATS) in the South China Sea

(2) Taiwan Watershed Ecology and Biogeochemistry Study (T-WEBS)

(3) Trace metal marine biogeochemistry and Taiwan GEOTRACES study

(4) Trace metal-Marine phytoplankton interaction: Ecological niche and community structure

(5) Ocean Circulation and Hydrographic Distribution in the North Pacific Ocean and East Asian Marginal Seas: Variations, Dynamics, and Influences

Website

https://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/index_en.php

Organization name

Research Center for Environmental Changes

Chinese Name

環境變遷研究中心

Start date

2004-01