cc: schlesin@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu, Mike Hulme date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:24:51 -0600 from: Michael Schlesinger subject: Re: Report on Regional Climate Scenarios to: Timothy Carter Dear Tim: It seems that you should take the parallel track of quickly publishing a report from your and/or Mike's institute, and then submitting a short paper to a peer-reviewed journal. Since almost all of the peer-reviewed journals now require 2 years for publication, it is all-the-more important to publish the report ASAP. Cheers, Michael >Dear Mike, > > >Last week I received courtesy of Dave Dokken a copy of your report, Interim > >Characterizations of regional Climate and Related Changes Up To 2100 > >Associated with the Provisional SRES Marker emissions Scenarios, which I > >had not seen before. > >It was remiss of me not to send this to you earlier, Mike: apologies. We >were on a very tight schedule to get this material into the authors' hands >via WG II TSU after the Canberra WG II authors' meeting in December. As you >will have seen, this has been distributed ONLY to WG II Lead Authors (via >password protected PDF) and CLAs (as hard copy), but NOT released >generally. The intention, as we explained to you previously, was that this >document be used for information to TAR authors only. > > >If it is possible, I ask that you make the following changes to this report: > > > >(1) On page 25, the first bullet states that "They [my simulations] derive > >from equilibrium AGCM simulations not available through the IPCC DDC and > >employ a regional pattern-scaling method which is still under review as a > >journal article." > > > >The journal article has been accepted for publication and should have a > >publication date of 2000, not 1999, as now referenced in the Report. Also, > >I would be pleased to put our simulation results in the IPCC DDC if > >informed how to do so. Thus, this first bullet should be eliminated. > > > >(2) Please change my first name on the cover page of the Report from "Mike" > >to "Michael". > >Mike Hulme will contact you concerning current DDC policy on which >simulations are to be included. > >Your other points can be accommodated in subsequent stages of publication >that Mike and I would like to set in train over the next few months. As >mentioned above, the document, as it stands, is purely for internal IPCC >use. It cannot be released as it is, since it includes many references to >the IPCC and because it has not been subject to the formal IPCC review >process. This would take for ever (!) so the problem exists of how IPCC >authors are to cite this report (this was raised in Canberra). Our current >thinking is to undertake a two-stage publication process (with the >co-operation of yourself and the other contributors, of course): > >1) To produce an institutional report (possibly from my institute), editing >out all reference to IPCC (except for the SRES scenarios), but presenting >the same material as is already included in the current document. This can >be made available rather rapidly in hard copy and on a Web site. > >2) To submit a concise form of the methodology, plus illustrative figures, >to a peer-reviewed journal. > >In this way, IPCC authors will have one, maybe two sources to cite for >these results as they finalise TAR. > >Please let me know your thoughts on this strategy. > >Best regards and Happy New Year, > >Tim > > >************************************************ > >Dr. Timothy Carter >Finnish Environment Institute >Box 140, Kesäkatu 6, FIN-00251 Helsinki, FINLAND > >Tel: +358-9-40300-315; GSM +358-40-740-5403 >Fax: +358-9-40300-390 >Email: tim.carter@vyh.fi > >************************************************ *********************************************************************** Michael E. Schlesinger, Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences, MC 223 University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign 105 S. Gregory Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA Tel.: (217) 333-2192 Fax: (217) 244-4393 e-mail: schlesin@atmos.uiuc.edu (Michael Schlesinger) Climate Research Group Homepage address: http://crga.atmos.uiuc.edu/ ***********************************************************************