date: Mon Dec 22 15:59:25 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: idagmeeting: need hotel bookings, prov. agenda, need to: Peter Stott Peter, I'm racing back from IDAG to go somewhere else. I'd be keen to be kept in the loop as it has links to one thing I'm doing and is also linked to the UKCIP08 work. Cheers Phil At 14:00 22/12/2008, you wrote: Dear All, On the Monday following the IDAG meeting, that is 26 January, at NCAR there is going be a meeting funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to discuss UK US collaboration on operational attribution. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the basic concept of operational attribution and to set out the scientific challenges that need to be addressed for such an operational capability to become reality. Such an operational attribution system would be part of a wider "climate services" capability providing information in near real time on weather events, their causes and relationship with climate variability and change, and forecasts for timescales from days to decades. There has been activity on both sides of the Atlantic along along these lines and the FCO have funded this gathering to facilitate further collaboration with a specific outcome of the meeting being an outline of an article for BAMS discussing and promoting these ideas. In addition, we hope the meeting will facilitate a continuing program of work in this area. Representatives from NCAR and NOAA including Kevin Trenberth and Marty Hoerling as well as myself, Myles Allen and Simon Tett from the UK will be participating. While this meeting is a specific focused activity for a particular funder and is not part of the annual IDAG meeting, anybody from IDAG would be welcome to attend, although if you do want to attend the meeting I'd be grateful if you could let me know. In addition anybody who wishes to contribute will be very welcome to participate in our proposed BAMS article. I will circulate the outcome of the meeting as well as drafts of the BAMS article amongst IDAG members. Best wishes for happy holidays and the New Year, Peter On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:08 +0000, Gabi Hegerl wrote: > Hi IDAG meeting people, > I attach a provisional list of people coming, and talk titles (or broad > ideas of topics - latter is fine too, for now, I just need to know when > to slot you!) > Also, the millennium hotel block booking needs to be confirmed in theory > THIS SUNDAY, although Tara negotiated a slight extension. However, it would > help hugely if you'd get in touch with her asap about hotel and flight > if you have not yet done so. > I also made a very provisional agenda, attached. MaryAnne will make this > into something much nicer and put it on the old IPCC chapter 9 webpage > > [1]http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/downloads/chapter9/IDAG_JAN2009.html > login attribution, pw 2gr00nhu7 > (pw was what the IT lady at Duke came up with, nothing I imade up!) > please protest if I am misrepresenting your plans or your talk, if I > have forgotten or lost you please shout its not on purpose! > > looking forward to seing you > > Gabi > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Peter Stott Head Climate Monitoring and Attribution Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5613 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 5615 Mobile: 07753880683 E-mail:peter.stott@metoffice.gov.uk [2]http://www.metoffice.gov.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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------