date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:30:10 +0800 from: Caspar Ammann subject: Re: Another Reminder about your Wengen contribution to: Phil Jones Got it, thanks Phil. we are currently lucky, they just took half of the cars off the streets to test if they can reduce the air pollution in Beijing. ONly cars with either even or odd car plates are allowed. Not too many traffic jams this way either. Still, not your typical Boulder mountain air quality here... You'll have my text by the end of the weekend. Cheers, Caspar On Aug 23, 2007, at Aug 23/3:50 PM, Phil Jones wrote: Caspar, Here's the latest version. If you work on section 4 and 4.1. I'll add the ice core stuff in for section 2.3 over the weekend. I won't get a chance to do it before you leave. Any suggestions on the rest welcome. I've reminded Keith and Tim here! Have a look at what Gavin put in for 4.2. Enjoy Beijing! If it rains you might see something, otherwise from my experience in mid July, it will just be about 200-300m then haze. Cheers Phil At 05:03 23/08/2007, you wrote: Hi Phil, poooh that is really very embarrassing ... YES, will send you a text and merge it with Gavin's and your stuff. I'm getting on an airplane Saturday morning and will use the 100 million hours between Beijing and the US to draft this. A year should be enough it seems... Cheers, Caspar On Aug 22, 2007, at Aug 22/9:37 PM, Phil Jones wrote: Keith, Tim, Caspar, I will add in the ice core piece over the weekend. It was only about 5pp of text with no figures, so it shouldn't take too long for you to do your part! Those that wrote the ice core piece didn't even have the nice few days in Wengen! Cheers Phil Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:34:19 +0100 To: Thorsten Kiefer <[1] Thorsten.Kiefer@pages.unibe.ch> From: Phil Jones <[2]p.jones@uea.ac.uk> Subject: Re: PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Thorstein, I have the ice core contribution. I have amended this, but not yet added it to the current draft. Ellen Mosley-Thompson is also keen to add a paragraph on tropical ice caps. She will do this soon, so she said over the weekend. I will send reminders to Keith Briffa, Tim Osborn and Caspar Amman - the only ones not to send anything yet. I have just reminded Tim as he is here. Keith is away. It wouldn't do any harm you sending them a strong reminder, as this whole exercise is dragging on! Cheers Phil At 13:24 22/08/2007, you wrote: Dear Phil, I just had contact with Larry Williams from EPRI for an update on PAGES/CLIVAR. Of course the question came up whether the missing chapters to the synthesis paper had come in and where it stands now? Can you give me a very brief update? Thanks and cheers Thorsten On 11 Jul 2007, at 14:19, Phil Jones wrote: Heinz, Thanks for the update on future plans for the PAGES/CLIVAR intersection. Work on the paper is coming along slowly. I just need contributions from Keith and Tim here and Caspar at NCAR. I'm away July 16-28, so I hope that the final contributions will arrive whilst I'm away, just like Swiss trains - always on time! I've reminded Keith and Tim, so remember Swiss timing Caspar! Cheers Phil Cheers Phil At 09:10 11/07/2007, Keith Briffa wrote: Hi Heinz I am in agreement with your outline - I would like to stress my own bias that PAGES (and the rest of us) need to be pursuing the issue of model validation (or specific process validation if you prefer) . There is much to be done on the area of exploring how models simulate the climate variability (and the nature of the association with forcings) that we reconstruct from the palaeodata. Many people, scientists among them, believe that the issue of global warming has nothing to gain from palaeolcimate studies and they are wrong. Issues such as the climate sensitivity of models versus the real world and the roles of specific forcings and their influence on the future, represent important foci for continued study. I would like to see this area of work and collaboration between palaeoclimatologists and climate (and ecological) modelers as an explicit priority of future work. At 14:41 09/07/2007, Heinz Wanner wrote: Dear Gavin, dear Eystein, PAGES has actually to formulate its new implementation plan. This gave us the opportunity also to discuss our engagement within the PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection part. Beside the publication of a basic methodological paper (coordinated by Phil) the decision of the Wengen meeting was (as far as I know): a) to organize a methodological workshop in Trieste (June 2008, mainly organized by Kim Cobb and Sandy Tudhope); b) to start the so-called PAGES/CLIVAR Reconstruction Challenge with three working groups: Modelling, pseudoproxies and reconstructions. In addition, Focus 2 of the new PAGES implementation plan intends to continue (or to start) to reconstruct the climate of the last 2 ka with a very high resolution (continental, seasonal). If possible, the three important state parameters temperature, precipitation and air pressure should be reconstructed. Some groups already started with this work: Europe, North and South America. New initiatives will likely be taken by teams from Asia/ China, Australia and the Arctic. The question is now how we can coordinate these activities. Our suggestion is to organize two well coordinated meetings in 2008 and 2009: 2008 - Workshops by the three working groups of the PAGES/CLIVAR Reconstruction Challenge, followed by the methodological PAGES/ CLIVAR workshop in Trieste (June 2008). 2009 PAGES Open Science Meeting in the U.S.: Special session on the actual results of PAGES, Focus 2: Regional reconstructions. The different modules of this workshop should be organized by the leaders of the different regional teams, such as Luterbacher, Briffa and Esper for Europe, Ammann and Wahl for North America, or Villalba and Grosjean for South America. 1. Can I ask Kim and Sandy to answer whether they have already made plans for Trieste. The PAGES office offers to help to organize this meeting. 2. Caspar, can you send out the official text of the PAGES/CLIVAR Reconstruction Challenge immediately. This text could form the basis for the definitive formation of the three working groups (and for the nomination of the group leaders normally a difficult task!). 3. I will personally help to plan the session of the U.S. Open Science session on regional reconstructions in 2009. The PAGES SSC meets soon in Australia. I will not attend this meeting, but Thorsten Kiefer will present the above mentioned ideas there. We ask all recipients of this mail to comment this concept and to send us our ideas or propositions. With very bets regards, Heinz ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Heinz Wanner Prof., Director NCCR Climate ------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Institute of Geography: Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland) Phone +41 (0)31 631 88 85 / Secr.: 88 59 Mail: <[3]mailto:wanner@giub.unibe.ch >[4]wanner@giub.unibe.ch [5]www.giub.unibe.ch/klimet Office NCCR Climate: Erlachstrasse 9a, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland) Phone +41 (0)31 631 31 60 / Secr.: 31 45 Mail: <[6]mailto:wanner@giub.unibe.ch >[7]wanner@giub.unibe.ch [8]www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [9]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ 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 [10]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ 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 [11]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [12]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Caspar M. Ammann National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate and Global Dynamics Division - Paleoclimatology 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80307-3000 email: [13]ammann@ucar.edu tel: 303-497-1705 fax: 303-497-1348 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 [14]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Caspar M. Ammann National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate and Global Dynamics Division - Paleoclimatology 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80307-3000 email: [15]ammann@ucar.edu tel: 303-497-1705 fax: 303-497-1348