date: Mon Mar 9 10:19:10 2009 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Leadership, Innovation and Collaboration (Annual Report) to: Simon Clegg Simon, Paper was in Nature (Geosciences). Gillett, N.P., Stone, D.A., Stott, P.A., Nozawa, T., Karpechko, A.Y., Hegerl, G.C., Wehner, M.F. and Jones, P.D., 2008: Attribution of polar warming to human influence. Nature (Geosciences), doi:10.1038/ngeo338. Here's some text on it. In Gillett et al. (2008), we find that observed changes in Arctic and Antarctic temperatures are not consistent with natural climate variability, but instead are directly attributable to human influence on the climate system as a result of the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The results show that these human activities have already caused significant warming in both polar regions, with likely impacts on polar biology, indigenous communities, ice-sheet mass balance and global sea level. As for DAARWG, here's a paragraph. Phil Jones is a member of NOAA's Data Access and Archiving Working Group (DAARWG), which reports to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of NOAA. The aims of DAARWG are to provide the SAB with guidance on how best to archive the increasing amounts of observational and climate model data that NOAA is obliged to keep by Federal Laws. The group has advised on the development of guidelines to decide which datasets need to be archived and also addressed issues of access. DAARWG oversees all three of NOAA's principal Data Centres as well as the 30+ centres of data that NOAA runs. Cheers Phil At 15:59 06/03/2009, you wrote: Dear Phil, I'll certainly mention the nature paper. Please send me a couple of paragraphs - or even just one paragraph - summarising the impact that DAARWG has on NOAA action/policy. I can use that as an example of one of the School's "other" forms of output and influence. Thanks, Simon. ************************************** Simon L. Clegg, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K. email: s.clegg@uea.ac.uk phone: (0)1603 593185 fax: (0)1603 591327 Skype: slclegg (with video) SkypeIn: 919-975-4901 (USA) Professor Clegg is also a member of the Air Quality Research Centre at the University of California at Davis. ************************************** On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Phil Jones wrote: Simon, A few other things - apart from the AGU Fellowship. We have just had a CRU Board meeting and discussed if we had one major CRU output. 1. We had a paper in Nature Geosciences (attached). Do you want me to ask Alexei Karpechko to put this together for a brief piece? If so, how many words and diagrams? 2. We would have highlighted the new set of UK Climate Scenarios (UKCP09), but they will not be out for several months. They should be a must for 2 years time! 3. I'm on a NOAA Working Group called 'Data Access and Archiving Working Group' or DAARWG for short. This reports to the NOAA Scientific Advisory Board. I've attached its latest recommendations. There is a strong likelihood they will get acted upon now NOAA has a National Climate Service. 4. I've just rotated off the Hadley Centre Science Review Committee. Cheers Phil At 00:41 05/03/2009, you wrote: Dear Colleagues, Thank you to those who responded to our previous request for the Annual Report, including the printed document that was put in pigeonholes last week. Those of you who filled in and returned it (it covered all sections we need information for) can ignore this email. This is our request for contribution/suggestions for items that demonstrate the School's "Leadership, Innovation and Collaboration". I've listed the few items below which I'm aware of. Other activities that would count are coordination of major multi-partner research projects, and links to other universities (exchanges of staff/students, joint courses for example). We'd like to hear about these and other things that might qualify, and are worth publicising. Examples: -------- Peter Liss, Chair of the ERC's Earth System Science Committee Mike Hulme appointed editor in Chief of "Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change" UEA/CEFAS parnership ENV involvement in the MRC Centre of Excellence at the Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge (physical activity, diet, and obesity). ENV involvement ELSA (Earth and Life Systems Alliance) Global Environmental Change moves close to the top of "premier league journal tables" Please enter your suggestions below, and reply to Simon Clegg. Description of item for this section: ------------------------------------ Are pictures available? ---------------------- Thank you, Simon Clegg Steve Dorling Carrie White Dawn Turnbull Rosie Cullington ************************************** Simon L. Clegg, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K. email: s.clegg@uea.ac.uk phone: (0)1603 593185 fax: (0)1603 591327 Skype: slclegg (with video) SkypeIn: 919-975-4901 (USA) Professor Clegg is also a member of the Air Quality Research Centre at the University of California at Davis. ************************************** _______________________________________________ Env.faculty mailing list Env.faculty@uea.ac.uk [1]http://www.uea.ac.uk/mailman21/listinfo/env.faculty 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------