From	Richard Baker	Date	Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:59:56 -0800
To	Mike Hulme
Subject	Re: Finalising PRAPROC! 21st November 1997
Mike > I hope you had my comments from a few weeks ago. Yes, sorry I've taken so long to reply. > 1. Overheads: we charge EU projects 20% overheads and these are totally > acceptable Yes, you are quite right. > 2. Budget: I will need to redraft our budget. Please tell me estimated > start data and for how long the project will run. I envisage our budget > remaining in the bracket 60-70k ECU I guess we are looking to April 1998 at the very earliest. I heard that some SMT projects take up to 2 years to get going even after they've been approved due to wrangles over the budget. We have 1 million ECU for 3 years....so some project budgets will have to be cut. Yours looks fine. > 3. Workplan: I am assuming the basic climate tasks remain pretty much as > before, namely: > > a) 10' gridded monthly climate data for Europe for 1961-90 linked to a weather > generator that will yield daily data. Key variables: precip., tmin, tmax, > vapour pressure, sunshine/radiation, wind, wet days, frost days. Yes, that'll do nicely! > b) for the world a 0.5deg gridded dataset for 1961-90 at monthly timesteps Excellent! > c) what was decided about very high resolution climate surfaces for 1-2 > regions? > This was in the original proposal but got dropped I think. Adding this back > to our work plan would involve extra time and hence resources. How > important are > these test 1km (?) resolution datasets? We've had a problem contacting the Spaniards which is a bit of a blow because they gave a nice geospatial feel to the project. The Norwegians are proposing to conduct a high resolution study near Oslo..I think they'll be interpolating locally collected data. I'll send you their proposal as soon as I can get it into a little better shape but, in principle, I think it would be best if you could, at this stage, just stick to the low resolution work. > 4. Other EU projects: I suggest you mention my involement in CLIVARA > which is > funded through the Environment/CLimate programme of DGXII. This is running > from > 1996-1999 and is concerned with mapping and modelling agriculture across the > EU under 1961-90 conditions and also under future climate change. > Co-ordinated > by Environmental Change Unit at University of Oxford. let me know if you want > more info. on this. A brief update to your "partner information" would be great. > Can you confirm for me which forms I need to get completed? Do you > have copies to send me or should I get them from here. I'm putting some in the post for you. > I shall not be able to be with you in York on Friday, but I am here > all this week if there are questions. many thanks..there are sure to be some. All the very best Richard