FromJonathan T. OverpeckDateThu, 21 Apr 2005 20:37:06 -0700
ToKeith Briffa
CCEystein Jansen, Phil Jones
SubjectRe: Fwd: Re: WG1 LA2 meeting - Overlap cluster A

Hi Keith and Phil - Thanks. I read this to say that the issue of
pre-1860 instrumental data is figured out ok? Plan outlined below
sounds good if ok with you both.

Best, Peck


>Peck
>FYI
>Phil and have have talked about the need t adress (even if briefly)
>the pre 1860 climate data - and both feel that the overlap with the
>paleo records (see our 1st Figure) in the 2000 year section , is one
>place to address this - though more needs to be done about the
>regional bias in these data
>
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>>Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:57:05 +0100
>>To: trenbert@ucar.edu,"Martin Manning"
>>From: Phil Jones
>>Subject: Re: WG1 LA2 meeting - Overlap cluster A
>>Cc: "Peter Lemke" ,
>> "Susan Solomon" ,ipcc-wg1@al.noaa.gov,
>> k.briffa@uea.ac.uk
>>
>>
>> Martin,
>> You are right, it should just be the two of us and as Keith is
>>just across the corridor
>> we can have the meeting beforehand or on the way together. If you
>>add this though to
>> your list of possible meetings you might find that some others are
>>interested. This
>> meeting of 3 and 6 can occur at the same time as 3 and 4, so
>>during Cluster B. There
>> does need to be some discussion between 4 and 6 though to decide
>>where Oerlemans
>> work is best located within AR4.
>> There is also the issue of Ch 9 as Kevin mentioned. As with Ch
>>4 using an NCEP
>> temperature series for the Arctic, there might be issues with some
>>other chapters
>> using observed datasets which Ch 3 might think inappropriate or
>>saying things about
>> them that differ from what we do. Hopefully all these sorts of
>>issues which get flagged
>> when the overviews of the whole of AR4 get discussed (and also at
>>LA3 and LA4).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>At 02:46 21/04/2005, trenbert@ucar.edu wrote:
>>>Martin I think you are right: the paleo instrumental issue is likely to
>>>involve mainly Briffa from Chap 6 and Phil from our chapter, so they might
>>>well spin off at some point. Are there others Phil?
>>>Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear Kevin and Phil
>>>>
>>>> As you say Chapter 6 was not implicated in the cluster B overlap issues
>>>> based on the author notes we received with the ZOD. You may want to cover
>>>> the point raised by Phil and in particular where the long instrumental
>>>> records fit, but as this seems to involve only a small number of LAs you
>>>> could consider dealing with that more efficiently in a small group
>>>> separately from the cluster meeting. So the choice is up to you.
>>>>
>>>> If it would be helpful, the TSU could start to compile a list of small
>>>> group meetings requested by CLAs and look for some way of setting up a
>>>> practical timetable for lunch time meetings. But we would need advice on
>>>> the specific individuals who should be involved in each case and all I am
>>>> offering is a "dating service" that would distribute a suggested list of
>>>> times and names that we could possibly update in real time during the
>>>> meeting in Beijing.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> At 09:07 AM 4/20/2005, Kevin Trenberth wrote:
>>>>>Hi Martin
>>>>>I agree with what Phil says, but I note that cluster B does not actually
>>>>>have chapter 6 as part of it. So the question is whether chapter 6 will
>>>>>be involved?. If so then we may well want to split into 2 parts. Last
>>>>>night I had a quick look at Chap 9 and I am concerned about redundancy
>>>>> and
>>>>>overlap and conflicts: they are doing some similar things with
>>>>>observations but maybe different obs, and coming to different conclusions
>>>>>e.g. wrt things like dimming.
>>>>>Kevin
>>>>>
>>
>>Prof. Phil Jones
>>Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
>>School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
>>University of East Anglia
>>Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk
>>NR4 7TJ
>>UK
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>Climatic Research Unit
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
>
>Phone: +44-1603-593909
>Fax: +44-1603-507784
>
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