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     WHAT IS PUB?
     A movement to change the way that we do hydrological science

    *Our focus and reason for being is
     uncertainty reduction in all its forms

    *10 yr scientific goal to shift hydrology
    from calibration reliant models to new
    and rich understanding-based models

   What is IAHS?
  *International Association of
    Hydrological  Sciences

  *IUGG association with 3500 individual   
   members (65 member countries)

  *Programmatic alignment with UN agencies:
   WMO, UNESCO, IAEA

   Why PUB is within IAHS?

    * To use these new approaches in parts
    of the world where predictions in 
    ungauged basins are most pressing- the                         PUB in a nutshell- see figure above
    developing world




 
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