Introduction of Huaihe River Basin Energy and Water Cycle Experiment and Research

Huaihe River Basin Energy and Water Cycle Ex-periment and Research (HUBEX), as one of the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000) Major Programs support-ed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC), successfully passed the check-up and won high appraisement from the experts. Huaihe River Basin, located in the inland of the eastern Asia monsoon area, is the key base for rice-cotton production and suf-fers from the frequent drought and flood. In order to in-vestigate the climate problem of Huaihe River Basin area,