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UNESCO’s research programme on Flow Regimes for International Experimental and Network data (FRIEND) has become a global network of researchers. Eight regional FRIEND groups have been established to study global change, impacts on the hydrological cycle, statistical analyses of hydrological extremes, flow forecasting, hydrological modelling at different scales, variability of hydrological regimes, uncertainties in applying hydrological modelling and water resources models and region-wide surface water assessment, and to enhance capacity building in developing countries. The research results of these groups are reported every four years to Conference. These are the proceedings (110 papers) of the FRIEND Conference held in Havana in November 2006. The conference focused on how advances in analytical techniques and process hydrology are improving our assessment of water resource variability and the impacts of environmental change. The topics were: data; hydrological extremes, and ecosystems. |