The World Climate Research Programme has a number of unifying themes:
Modelling
- The WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (WMAC)
- The Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
- WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
- Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP)
- The Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), joint with the WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS)
- Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S), joint with the WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP)
- Decadal Climate Prediction Project
Observations and analysis
- The WCRP Data Advisory Council (WDAC)
- CCl/WCRP/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI), joint with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) and the Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM)