FromGabi HegerlDateTue, 14 Oct 2008 21:51:24 +0100
ToBamzai, Anjuli
CCMyles Allen, claudia tebaldi, Knutti Reto, Stott, Peter, francis, Tim Barnett, Hans von Storch, Claudia Tebaldi, Phil Jones, David Karoly, Toru Nozawa, Ben Santer, Dáithí Stone, Richard Smith, Nathan Gillett, Michael Wehner, Doug Nychka, Xuebin Zhang, Christopher D Miller, Tom Knutson, Tim Delsole, Susan Solomon, Jones, Gareth S, Tara Torres
SubjectRE: Meeting Jan 21-23

Hi all, I assume this is general interest, not IDAG meeting - I think the
meeting would be a bit too big and complicated if we would try to resolve
IPCC type issues - on the other hand, involving Chris Field and maybe
Tom Stocker may be an interesting way to vent the scientific issues in
a relaxed setting. But I would suggest to avoid agency type things -
can be convinced otherwise if you feel strongly. we do have a limited
budget, too!

Gabi

Quoting "Bamzai, Anjuli" :

> Myles,
>
> The Dept of State is the U.S. lead on IPCC, Conference of Party
> discussions, etc. USAID does the bulk of adaptation assistance at the
> international level. At the national level, there are various CCSP
> agencies, e.g. Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Interior, EPA, who are more
> on the 'application' side of the CCSP.
>
> I'd need to ask someone in those agencies on how they are approaching
> the issues you raise. Perhaps Chris Miller knows someone there...?
>
> Programs such as NOAA Climate Change Data Detection (CCDD), and DOE
> Climate Change Prediction Program(CCPP) focus almost exclusively on
> IPCC WG I type of questions.
>
> Anjuli
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myles Allen [mailto:allen@atm.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:00 AM
> To: claudia tebaldi; Gabi Hegerl
> Cc: Knutti Reto; Stott, Peter; Zwiers,Francis [Ontario]; Tim Barnett;
> Hans von Storch; Claudia Tebaldi; Phil Jones; David Karoly; Toru Nozawa;
> Ben Santer; Daithi Stone; Richard Smith; Nathan Gillett; Michael Wehner;
> Doug Nychka; Xuebin Zhang; Bamzai, Anjuli; Chris Miller; Tom Knutson;
> Tim Delsole; Susan Solomon; Jones, Gareth S; Tara Torres
> Subject: RE: Meeting Jan 21-23
>
> Hi All,
>
> That is a very good idea indeed. I was talking to Tom Stocker last week,
> arguing that resolving the differences in the definition of attribution
> between WG1 and WG2 was going to be one of the key challenges for AR5,
> particularly as attribution of impacts becomes a live topic as countries
> start to make the case for adaptation assistance. How about we invite
> the co-Chair of WG1 along as well?
>
> If we are going to invite Chris Field, we should definitely also invite
> someone from the "double attribution" community, or it will seem a bit
> like WG1 lecturing to the co-Chair of WG2. Any suggestions, David?
>
> Anjuli, has anyone in the US State Department (or whichever department
> will handle this) started addressing the question of how the US
> government will distinguish "impacts of climate change" from
> "vulnerability to natural climate variability" in allocating resources
> for adaptation assistance? If anyone has even started thinking about
> this problem, it would be very interesting to hear from them to know
> what questions they are likely to need answering. We could also try and
> find out if anyone in the European Commission is worrying about this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Myles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: claudia tebaldi [mailto:claudia.tebaldi@gmail.com]
> Sent: 13 October 2008 20:46
> To: Gabi Hegerl
> Cc: Myles Allen; Knutti Reto; Stott, Peter; Zwiers,Francis [Ontario];
> Tim Barnett; Hans von Storch; Claudia Tebaldi; Phil Jones; David Karoly;
> Toru Nozawa; Ben Santer; stoned@csag.uct.ac.za; Richard Smith; Nathan
> Gillett; Michael Wehner; Doug Nychka; Xuebin Zhang; Bamzai, Anjuli;
> Chris Miller; Tom Knutson; Tim Delsole; Susan Solomon; Jones, Gareth S;
> Tara Torres
> Subject: Re: Meeting Jan 21-23
>
> Hi Gabi et al.
>
> I wonder if we could try to get Chris Field, who is going to be the
> chair of working group 2 for AR5...I don't know how likely it is to get
> him but it may be interesting to get his perspective on what was done in
> AR4 WG2 and what he would like to see in AR5 WG2.
>
> c
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gabi Hegerl
> wrote:
>> Hi IDAG people,
>>
>> Its time to start planning our next IDAG meeting in detail. A
> provisional
>> coarse agenda is attached. Please feel free to email me suggestions
>> to improve/update this, and if there is a topic you would
> love
>> to see covered but that isn;t please get in touch as well.
>> Also, we should have one topic related to the impacts review paper
> that is
>> to be written in year 2 of the grant. Therefore, if you have a
>> suggestion of a guest that would help us elucidate the
> challenges in
>> impact attribution but also to move forward on this, please let me
>> know!
>> Tara Torres from UCAR (tara@ucar.edu) will help us to plan the
> meeting.
>> Also, I hope to hire a student helper at Duke to get our meeting
> webpage
>> going, keep track of agenda items etc, but please bear with me and
>> tolerate a bit of chaos before we have succeeded with this!
>>
>> What I need from you is to please
>> - let me know if you can make it, and what you would vaguely like to
> speak
>> about (you can do the first now and postpone the second)
>> - get in touch with Tara to book your travel - ideally, towards the
> end of
>> October / or in early November (she is a bit buried right now)
>> - get in touch with me when you have suggestions, or want to bring
> somebody
>>
>> Gabi
>>
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>
>
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