About Us
A state-of-the-art Centre for Climate Change Research established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune to better understand the science of climate change over the Tropics and enable improved assessments of the regional climate responses to global climate change.
The proposal for a Centre for Climate Change Research submitted to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India was approved on 7th January 2009 under the Program on Global and Regional Climate Change as one of the schemes of the 11th Five Year Plan.
CCCR has the mandate of developing an Earth System Model (ESM) and to make the regional climate projections, in addition to work on Paleoclimatology and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) measurements.