date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:22:52 +0100 from: "Livingston, Linda" subject: Use of the Regional Climate Model. to: "'n.w.arnell@soton.ac.uk'" , "'penny_bramwell@detr.gsi.gov.uk'" , "'simonj_brown@detr.gsi.gov.uk'" , "'mgrc@ceh.ac.uk'" , "Cox, Peter" , "'caroline_fish@detr.gsi.gov.uk'" , "'m.hulme@uea.ac.uk'" , "'s.kovats@LSHTM.ac.uk'" , "'m.livermore@uea.ac.uk'" , "'t.mcmichael@LSHTM.ac.uk'" , "'r.nicholls@mdx.ac.uk'" , "'martin.parry@uea.ac.uk'" , "'parryml@aol.com'" , "'d.viner@uea.ac.uk'" , "'david_warrilow@detr.gsi.gov.uk'" , "'a.r.white@hw.ac.uk'" Dear FTI Group Members Please see the letter below from Geoff. Thank you With best wishes Linda PA to Dr Jenkins "David Although we did not have much time to talk at the end of the Fast Track Impacts meeting, I strongly support the idea of concentrating FTI efforts on a number of vulnerable areas of the world where climate change impacts are likely to be most significant, and doing a good job on these. As I suggested, the key to this would be in the use of the Regional Climate Model. With its greater spatial resolution and better representation of extremes. We already have RCM scenarios for Europe, Indian sub-continents and South Africa. Once the portable RCM is up and running we will be creating at your request scenarios for China, and then it will be made freely available for other countries to use for their own assessments. Of course, RCM scenarios can only ever be as good as the GCM driving them, but it would be strange if we were to be deriving impacts assessments based on a GCM at the same time as most areas of the world would be doing the same using RCM results. Geoff" > Linda Livingston > Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research > Met. Office > BRACKNELL RG12 2SY > UK > Tel: +44 1344 85 6656 > Fax: +44 1344 85 4898 > linda.livingston@metoffice.com > > http://www.metoffice.com >