From	Phil Jones	Date	Thu Oct 7 10:28:36 2004
To	Ben Santer
Subject	Re: More vertical profile plots
Ben, Thanks for the plots. I gather from Karl that you'll be in Seattle and not at the HC review. I'll be in Seattle also and am missing the HC review, so we can catch up on things. Last week was the first LA meeting of AR4. You have likely been contacted by Kevin and also maybe by Brian Soden about writing something on tropopause heights. It would perhaps be useful to send them these figures and maybe also to David Parker. For our chapter Kevin is co-ordinating the U/A and circulation sections. I'm doing the surface T/P and extremes and the final summary. I've been too busy to think about anything yet ! We have a mix of abilities in the LAs, but Brian, David P, Dave Easterling and Albert Klein Tank of KNMI are solid. The Iranian, Argentinian, Romanian, Kenyan don't seem up to too much, but this is life in the IPCC - remember Ebby ! The fact that HadCRUT2v is close to PCM may be fortuitous, but good nonetheless. If you subsample PCM with CRU coverage, you say the PCM trend will reduce. The paper and report with Adrian shows that if you look at the full ERA-40 surface T data, then the reverse happens. Not a large increase though. Most comes from the SH, so there are issues of what ERA-40 is doing over the Southern Oceans, Antarctica and Australia are key. I'll be talking about this work in Seattle. I don't have any IDAG work to give you - not done a lot. Plan to look at the 1740 event in Europe, when time permits. If you want any of my ppt for your IDAG talk, you can look through in Seattle. Good to catch up in a weeks time. Hope you and Nick are well. Away next week in Delhi at a GCOS workshop. Cheers Phil At 01:50 07/10/2004, you wrote: Dear Jerry, Ram, and Jim, Here are the profiles of zonally-averaged atmospheric temperature change that you requested. As I mentioned in yesterday's email, I've prepared a couple of different versions of these plots. First, there are two different analysis periods: January 1979 through to December 1999, and January 1958 through to December 1999. Second, temperature changes are expressed in two different ways: in terms of linear trends per decade, and in terms of the total linear changes over the two analysis period. So there are four different vertical profile plots: -rw-r--r-- 1 bsanter climate 194436 Oct 6 16:27 ccsp_vp_lt_1979-1999.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 bsanter climate 142312 Oct 6 16:27 ccsp_vp_lt_1958-1999.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 bsanter climate 201997 Oct 6 16:43 ccsp_vp_tlc_1958-1999.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 bsanter climate 198109 Oct 6 17:04 ccsp_vp_tlc_1979-1999.ps All the relevant information is encoded in the file name: "lt" denotes linear trend, and "tlc" denotes total linear change. Personally, I have a preference for the total linear change plots. If you compare panel f (the PCM ALL forcing case) of the "tlc" plots for 1979-1999 and 1958-1999, the much larger total changes over the longer analysis period are visually obvious. This is not the case if changes are expressed in degrees C/decade. I note that (as requested by Roger Pielke in Exeter), the plots are appropriately area weighted. All profiles of zonally-averaged atmospheric temperature change are ensemble means. Each ensemble mean was calculated from four individual realizations. There is no subtraction of control run drift, which probably is not a significant factor at this point in the perturbation experiments. I've also updated the two plots that I sent you yesterday, which show global-mean and tropical-mean profiles of atmospheric temperature change. These plots now include observed near-surface temperature trends, estimated from HadCRUT2 and HadCRUTv (the latter is the variance corrected version of HadCRUT2). PCM ALL and HadCRUT near-surface temperature changes are in good agreement, both for global- and tropical averages. I'm pretty sure that in the global-mean case, subsampling PCM ALL results with HadCRUT coverage would yield a slightly warmer PCM ALL 2m temperature trend (in view of the muted warming of 2m temperatures at high southern latitudes in ALL; these areas are not well sampled in HadCRUT). It would be nice to show these plots of global- and tropical-average changes in Chapter 5. I think they make some useful points. Hope all of this is helpful, With best regards, Ben (P.S.: I'd like to acknowledge the assistance of Charles Doutriaux and Mike Wehner in producing these plots. Considerable data processing was involved in generating these six figures). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. 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