date: Fri Feb 29 15:32:31 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: IPCC section in ENV report to: "Rachel Warren" Rachel, I was the CLA (with Kevin Trenberth) on Ch 3 of the WG1 report. The title of this was 'Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change'. This was the largest chapter in WG1 at 101pp. With Ch 6 (Paleo, which Keith Briffa was involved in) and Ch 9 (Understanding and Attribution, Nathan Gillett), the three chapters were the most important of WG1. The main piece of work that went into the Chapter was the global temperature record (which the ENV report discussed last year). Ch 3 also referred to earlier CRU work on precipitation data, extremes of climate and circulation measures. IPCC seems to have always used the HadCRUT3 temperature record and many people refer to it as the IPCC record. This is incorrect, As HadCRUT3 doesn't differ much from the NCDC record in Asheville, NC we produced some plots with HadCRUT3 and some with NCDC (National Climatic Data Center). We produced the time series and they produce the spatial maps of trends. I've been a CA on the 3 previous reports on the same basic chapter. There was much CRU work referred to in Chs 6 and 9 as well, and CRU data are referred to in Ch 11 as well. Here's a little snippit that might be useful to add. WG1 has 11 chapters. I have at least one of my papers (as first author) referred to be each chapter except Ch 5. Mostly each chapter refers to between 1-6 papers, although it is more for Ch 3 that I helped write. I have just looked through Ch 5 and a paper of mine is there, but I'm not first author! I am enjoying the experience more and more as I begin to slowly forget the time and effort it all took. I would do it again, more likely as an RE, as then you get some of the experience without all the effort. Seeing the volume come out and going to the final plenary in Paris was good. The Nobel Peace Prize was , however, the icing on the cake for all the effort. I know many skeptics have referred to this award as a political gesture - but this has always been the case. I still have the lists of who was involved that I prepared for Jacquie, so I could check through a Table if you're producing one. Cheers Phil At 21:26 28/02/2008, you wrote: Dear fellow IPCC stars, A reminder that I did ask for your contributions for the ENV report by the end of February ... and it is now IS the end of February! (Fortunately, as it is a leap year, you have one extra day to meet my deadline!) Please send me you contributions asap. Be assured that when we write about the Nobel we will make clear it was for all reports and if there is room I want to at least list the names of anyone not in the 2007 report who is still in ENV. And of course we will mention Bob Watson! But I'm not going to contact those people and ask them for contributions - it's simply too large a task to cover all the several IPCC reports and special IPCC reports. If this raises particular problems then someone else will need to volunteer to contact all those other people as I do not have time. If you feel that a particular person deserves mention for past reports, please include 1 sentence on what they did in what you send me. It isn't going to be possible to mention everyone, so please only do this if they made a really major contribution. Best wishes Rachel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rachel Warren Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:03 PM Subject: IPCC section in ENV report To: Phil Jones , Neil Adger , Irene Lorenzoni , Keith Briffa , Sarah Raper , Tim Osborn , Andrew Watkinson , C.Lequere@uea.ac.uk, Johanna Wolf , Andrew Manning , Nick Brooks , M.Agnew@uea.ac.uk, jacqueline@dechazal.net, andlug@hotmail.com, k.vincent@uea.ac.uk Dear All ENV would like a 3 page section in its annual (2007) report about the contribution of ENV to IPCC AR4. I have been asked to coordinate this section with you all. If anyone has up to date email addresses for Nick Brooks, and David Viner, please forward this message on to them. I understand that you are/were all in ENV in 2007 and that all contributed to the IPCC AR4. If anyone included on this list is not in ENV, or was not in ENV in 2007, please let me know. (In particular I cannot find Andrew Dlugolecki or Katherine Vincent on the ENV website). For the section I need contributions from each of you. In particular I need: (a) a PARAGRAPH from each of your explaining your contribution to IPCC AR4. (b) comments on the overall experience (I may not be able to include all of these) (c) We also need a section on pieces of ENV research that were used in the IPCC AR4 contributions. If you have any of these, please let me know. Currently, ENV made a request for an account from Phil Jones on how the annual surface temperature record is compiled and how it is used in IPCC. But if anyone else would like to write something for this section please let me know, it would be good be able to choose the best pieces. Please note that if I do not hear from anyone about their contribution, I won't be able to make sure it appears in the report, so this is your opportunity to be featured! (Of course if on the other hand I am overwhelmed with text then obviously not all can be included). Please send me your contributions by the end of February at the latest. FYI the 3 pages are to contain: 1. Diagram relating the different parts of the report (subject areas) to ENV contributors. 2. Summary of what each person did. 3. A longer piece relating someone's personal experience of the whole process (up to and including the final negotiation, if possible), and including a timeline; and/or compiled comments from several persons on the experience. 4. One or two items about ENV contributors' research that informs/contributes to their work on IPCC. 5. The Nobel ceremony (Bob Watson attended and has pictures). Best wishes Rachel -- Dr Rachel Warren Senior Research Fellow Tyndall Centre Zuckermann Institute University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Telephone 01603 593912 Fax 01603 593901 E-mail r.warren@uea.ac.uk -- Dr Rachel Warren Senior Research Fellow Tyndall Centre Zuckermann Institute University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Telephone 01603 593912 Fax 01603 593901 E-mail r.warren@uea.ac.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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------