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The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) ProjectThe CliC Project was established in March 2000 by the World Climate Research Programme ( WCRP )to stimulate, support, and coordinate research into the processes by which the cryosphere interacts with the rest of the climate system. The cryosphere consists of the frozen portions of the globe, and includes ice sheets, glaciers, ice caps, icebergs, sea ice, snow cover and snowfall, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground, as well as lake- and river-ice. As a sensitive component of the climate system, the cryosphere may provide key indicators of climate change, and CliC will focus on identifying patterns and rates of change in cryospheric parameters. In 2004, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR),became a co-sponsor of the project. CliC-secretariat is located at the Norwegian Polar Institute and has their own website.
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