cc: Marquis@ucar.edu date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:51:07 -0700 from: Martin.Manning@noaa.gov subject: [Wg1-ar4-clas] Planning for Paris - upcoming teleconferences to: wg1-ar4-clas@joss.ucar.edu, qdh@cma.gov.cn, cdccc@cma.gov.cn, chenzhenlin@hotmail.com Dear CLAs Happy New Year to you all. It promises to be an eventful one for everyone involved in the AR4 and we are looking forward to working with you to a very successful completion of the report in Paris shortly. In order to make some substantive progress on addressing government comments before we all arrive in Paris, we will be contacting you on a number of issues in the next few weeks. Many of the more straightforward issues can be dealt with by email but some will require a teleconference. We are now planning 4 teleconferences as below. For each of these we are indicating the names of the CLAs and LAs who have been most involved with the issues, however, this is an invitation to you as CLAs to indicate if you would like to participate in any teleconference below that does not already have your name against it. In that case please let us know as soon as possible and not later than c.o.b Friday Jan 5th. Teleconferences: 1 - Sea level rise (observations plus projections): Gregory, Allen, Bindoff, Stocker, Meehl 2 - Observations: Trenberth, Jones, Lemke, Willebrand, Bindoff, Rusticucci, Hoskins 3 - Paleoclimate: Jansen, Overpeck, Briffa 4 - Projections: Meehl, Stocker, Stouffer, Friedlingstein, Held, Kattsov, Stott At this stage we are expecting to deal with issues arising from the comments on the Drivers and Attribution sections of the SPM by email. As we mentioned in an earlier email we are planning two types of presentation during the formal session in Paris. The first are 'science presentations' given in the morning prior to the plenary session or in lunch breaks and are to cover misunderstandings evident in some of the government comments or to provide background as to why some things that may be requested can not be provided (e.g. a probability for climate sensitivity being > 4.5C). They are not intended to deal with specific comments or text proposals. The second type are 'introductory presentations' for each section of the SPM. These will be given during the formal session as we start each SPM section. They need to be quite short (5 - 10 mins) and serve to remind all delegates of the underlying chapters and where the SPM text and figures have come from. The full list of science presentations (the first type above) is as follows. Drivers generally: - Ramaswamy Observations generally: - Trenberth, Lemke, Willebrand Extremes table: - Nicholls Paleo section: - Jansen/ Overpeck Attribution: - Hegerl/ Zwiers Climate sensitivity: - Stocker Sea level budgets & projections: - Bindoff, Alley, Gregory Projections (all other aspects): - Meehl/ Stocker One final note. It is quite evident to us that interest in our SPM is increasing rapidly and many of you have been, or can expect to be, contacted by the media or by others including your own government officials wanting to learn what the final report will say. As we now start to consider revisions to the text of the final draft please ensure that email or other discussions are carried out in strict confidence among ourselves. Generally everyone respects our process but they do frequently need to be reminded of the rules. Regards Susan and Martin _______________________________________________ Wg1-ar4-clas mailing list Wg1-ar4-clas@joss.ucar.edu http://lists.joss.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wg1-ar4-clas