date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:25:14 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: CA climate to: Tom Wigley ,Mike Hulme Tom, Bryan Weare is at US Davis. He would know about some of the things you mention. The jerk you mention was called Good(e)rich who found urban warming at all Californian sites. I'm away until today until May 5 in Nice and Geneva. I hope you can do the temperature plots yourself and that Mike can do the precip ones. Mike has the data as 5 degree grid boxes, so the it would be good if you could define these for him. I think he's back tomorrow. It would be possible to use the 0.5 degree grid boxes but we'd have to get Mark New to do that for us. Cheers Phil At 12:13 PM 4/24/00 -0600, Tom Wigley wrote: >Phil and Mike, > >I have to attend a meeting organized by EPRI and the California Energy >Commission on June 12, 13. The focus is future climate scenarios and the >implied impacts. It will include discussions of GCM results and >statistical and LAM downscaling. They want someone to address observed >climate (homogeneity problems; E-W and N-S contrasts; ENSO effects; >changes in circulation -- such as increased offshore cyclogenesis, changes >in storm tracks; etc.), but they don't have anyone invited yet. Chuck >Hakkarinen (EPRI) says there is someone at UC-Davis who is an "expert" on >CA climate. Who is this? Do you know any other Californians who are in >the observed climate game and who you respect? (From memory, there are >some nitpicky jerks who have criticized the Jones et al. data sets -- we >don't want one of those. Wasn't one of these guys called Goodrich?) > >For myself, I would like to have some monthly time series for the CA area >average. I can possibly do this for temperature, but certainly not for >precipitation. Is there any way you two could send me time series within >the next day or so (before I leave for Australia)? For the regions, I'd >like results for the following separate areas (as near as you can do it): >(1) 32-36degN, 115-121degW >(2) 36-42degN, 118-124degW >(3) 32-42degN, 114-124degW >(4) 36-42degN, 106-114degW >The last one represents the headwaters of the Colorado River. > >Finally, if you had some PDSI time series for the region, I'd very much >like these too. > >Many thanks, > > >Tom > > > >********************************************************** >Tom M.L. Wigley >Senior Scientist >ACACIA Program Director >National Center for Atmospheric Research >P.O. Box 3000 >Boulder, CO 80307-3000 >USA >Phone: 303-497-2690 >Fax: 303-497-2699 >E-mail: wigley@ucar.edu >Web: http://www.acacia.ucar.edu >********************************************************** > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------