cc: cg1@mercury.soc.soton.ac.uk, ppn@nerc.ac.uk, apar@nerc.ac.uk date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:31:26 +0000 from: Meric Srokosz subject: modelling intercomparison (continued) to: lkeigwin@whoi.edu, plemke@awi-bremerhaven.de, ewwo@bas.ac.uk, r.r.dickson@cefas.co.uk, Alex.Haxeltine@uea.ac.uk, mccave@esc.cam.ac.uk, haugan@gfi.uib.no, studhope@glg.ed.ac.uk, rwood@meto.gov.uk, sfbtett@meto.gov.uk, j.m.slingo@reading.ac.uk, p.j.valdes@bristol.ac.uk, j.lowe@rhbnc.ac.uk, marotzke@dkrz.de, pc@soc.soton.ac.uk, a.j.watson@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk Dear all - Peter Challenor has raised some issues regarding the modelling intercomparison (see below). Do others have views? We need to move forward on this, so I am going to set a deadline of noon next Monday 22nd March for imput. So if you have a view (of any kind) please e-mail the Steering Committee before the deadline. Many thanks, Meric >I am not exactly sure what is being proposed here. Is the plan to >remove Jonathan Gregory's proposal from the second AO and rebadge an >expanded version as the modelling intercomparison activity or is the >expanded version still going to be part of the AO? I am not >particularly keen on either. In both cases we seem to be giving a >proposal an 'inside track' to funding in way that does not to me to >be either open or fair. There may be other groups who would have bid >for this work if they had not thought that there was an existing >model intercomparison activity. I should make it plain that I have >no problem with Jonathan actually doing the work - he would be an >excellent choice; it is the mechanism I am not happy with. > >I would prefer us to put out a tender for the work (after all we >know what we want done). This would then be completely open and fair >and I would have thought we could sort it out in a similar time >scale to the AO. > >Peter -- Dr. Meric Srokosz, Room 254/43,Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK Tel:+44-(0)23-80596414 (direct line); Fax: +44-(0)23-80596400 e-mail: mas@soc.soton.ac.uk or M.Srokosz@soc.soton.ac.uk http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/SAT/pers/mas.html Science Coordinator NERC Rapid Climate Change Programme http://rapid.nerc.ac.uk/