cc: gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov, eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no, kim.cobb@eas.gatech.edu, sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk, jto@u.arizona.edu, mann@psu.edu, ammann@ucar.edu, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, juliebg@geo.umass.edu, thorsten.kiefer@pages.unibe.ch, louise.kromer@pages.unibe.ch date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:08:05 +0200 from: wanner@giub.unibe.ch subject: Re: PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection to: Keith Briffa Hi Keith, thanks for your comment. I am in full agreement with your propositions. In my mail I did possibly not clearly explain that PAGES will publish the written form of the implementation plan (IP) soon. Everybody is asked to participate in the discussion of this implementation plan. Therefore, it is important that Thorsten and Louise help to update the last version of this implementation plan on the PAGES website. Focus 1 of the IP deals with the omprovement of the forcings and modelling, and Focus 2 is centered on regional reconstructions, including modelling aspects. Therefore, the Foci 1 and 2 work closely together as I discussed with Bette while I was in the NCAR. Our goal is in fact what you nicely formulated like "exploring how models simulate the climate variability (and the natire of the association with forcings) that we reconstruct from the paleodata" or "issues such as the climate sensitivity of models versus the real world....", etc. The idea of the regional reconstructions in Focus 2 is in fact to support such a procedure. I also agree that we have to show to to a broader community (including especially the press and our politicians) how important paleoclimatic studies are. This is also important for our future funding. Very best regards, Heinz ------------------------------------------------------ This mail was sent through IMP at http://mail.unibe.ch