date: Wed Nov 3 08:20:24 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Fwd: another box? to: "Neville Nicholls" Neville, Thanks for the suggestion. I thought of him, but Kevin doesn't think much of him as you say and said so to me. You can see what we come up with in Beijing - maybe sooner if you foolishly agreed to review Ch 3 ! Cheers Phil At 00:00 03/11/2004, you wrote: Hi Phil. I actually don't know anyone in Japan who could do this, but if you were looking for an east asian perspective perhaps you should go for Johnny Chan? He has written about changes in TC activity in the west Pacific. However, he has a pretty simplistic view of how to detect an influence of, for example, local SSTs, on TCs (I had a very public (but still pleasant) argument with him on this at a big climate change conference in Beijing last year). So you (especially Kevin) may not like what he says. But I think he is the obvious east Asia expert to have a crack at such a box anyway. He might end up saying what Chris Landsea would probably say anyway. Cheers, Neville On 1 Nov 2004 at 13:55, Phil Jones wrote: > > Neville, > I said to Kevin I'd contact a couple of contacts in Japan, but do > you > know anyone > in Japan or China, who could write this box. I know Chris Landsea > could > do it, but he > always does. It would be good to get a different perspective. > > Cheers > Phil > > >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:18:47 -0600 > >From: Kevin Trenberth > >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) > >Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: > >"Jones, Phil." Subject: another box? > >X-UEA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more > >information X-UEA-MailScanner: Found to be clean > > > >Phil > >I have been embroiled in a press conference media event on hurricanes > >and global warming: opposing some things said by people like Chris > >Landsea who has said all the stuff going on is natural variability. > >In addition to the 4 hurricanes hitting Florida, there has been a > >record number hit Japan 10?? and I saw a report saying Japanese > >scientists had linked this to global warming. There was also the > >unique event in March 2004 with the hurricane in the South Atlantic > >off Brazil. I am leaning toward the idea of getting a box on changes > >in hurricanes, perhaps written by a Japanese. What do you think? Do > >you know who could do that? > > > >Kevin > > > >-- > >**************** > >Kevin E. Trenberth e-mail: > >trenbert@ucar.edu Climate Analysis Section, NCAR > >[1]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/ P. O. Box 3000, > >(303) 497 1318 Boulder, CO 80307 (303) > >497 1333 (fax) > > > >Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80303 > > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > > Neville Nicholls Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre PO Box 1289K, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, 3001 Street address: 9th floor, 700 Collins Street, Docklands, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 3 9669 4407; Fax: +61 3 9669 4660 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------