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To: [email protected]
Subject: schijatov
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 09:41:07 +0500
Dear Keith,
I have bought the tickets from Moscow to London and back. My arrival
to London (Heathrow Airport) is by flight SU 245 (Aeroflot Company) on
July 19. Departure from Moscow is at 20.10 (local time), arrival to London
is approximately at the same local time. As I know, Evgeny Vaganov did not
bay tickets until now, but he informed of my dates and can bay tickets the
same flights. My depature from London to Moscow is on August 1 by the
Aeroflot Company flight SU 244 at 09.00 of local time.
Please, inform me how can I arrive at Cambridge from London? Is
there the program of this meeting? We must be ready to do some reports?
For example, I can prepare a report about the progress in developing the
Yamal supra-long chronology and together with Evgeny about dendroclimatic
investigation in the Ural-Siberian subarctic.
Rashit Hantemirov and Alexander Surkov will go soon to the Yamal
peninsula (June 24). This summer they want to collect subfossil material
from areas which are much more remote and situated at higher latitudes.
We hoped to use some money of the ADVANCE project. But we have not received
this money until now and the program of collecting during this summer will
be reduced.
Some days ago I received an information that the INTAS-RFBR project
was rejected. The competition was very high.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED - Early Detection Work
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:xxx xxxx xxxx(PDT)
Dr. Jones,
I am contacting you on behalf of Dave Bader and Tim Barnett regarding a couple
action items in support of early detection on climate change. Based upon the
anticipated award for NOAA support during fiscal year 1997 on climate change
data and detection, DOE has authorized the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (PNNL) to utilize existing funding through 9/30/96 to conduct a
meeting of the experts, and to begin preliminary investigations.
PNNL would like to place a contract with you as soon as possible to provide
support through 9/30/96. In order to place a contract with you, I need to
submit a statement of work and signed cost proposal to our Contracts
Department. If you could please fax this to me as soon as possible on (509)
xxx xxxx xxxx, it would be greatly appreciated.
I thought your activity my look something like the following (feel free to
change/edit):
Scope of Work
Dr. Phillip Jones shall begin initial work in support of the pilot project
identified in the Early Detection of Climate Trends report. He shall prepare
for and participate in a meeting on greenhouse signal detection, to be held in
Washington, DC on September 17-18, 1996. In addition, Dr. Jones shall conduct
a preliminary analysis ?????? (please provide input)
Deliverables
Also, for your information the current plan for the meeting is for September 17-
18, 1996 at the Courtyard by Marriott - Greenbelt, 6301 Golden Triangle Drive,
Greenbelt, MD. (3xxx xxxx xxxx, fax: (3xxx xxxx xxxx. Government room rate is
$89/day.
When you provide your cost estimate, it would be appreciated if you could
provide your hourly rate, in addition to travel estimates for the September
meeting. To expedite the process, it is very helpful if can include
documentation to support your hourly rate.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions. My phone number is xxx xxxx
xxxx
2861, fax is xxx xxxx xxxx.
Thank you,
Karen
Dear Phil,
It looks like you have found Baitoushan. Vol. 2 lists Kuwae as VEI 6 in
1452 +/- 10 AD. How accurate are your dates? By the way, Chris Newhall
thinks 1600 is the Parker volcano on Mindanao in the Philippines. He
hasn't published that so far, as I know.
Could you please define "utter prat" for me? Sometimes I think we speak
the same language, and sometimes I'm not so sure.
I'm doing fine. We have a new building with nice new offices. I'm going
to Australia next week with Sherri and Danny, and after the meeting, will
visit Cairns, Adelaide, and New Zealand. I'm looking forward to skiing
on a volcano, if it stops erupting.
Alan
> Alan,
> Thanks for the quick response. We'll expect something from Melissa
> in the next few weeks. I also hope our copy of the 2cnd edition arrives
> soon. In our maximum latewood density reconstruction from the polar Urals
> to AD 914, the most anomalous summer is AD 1032. A lot of other volcano
> years are there with summers of -3 to -4 sigma such as 1816,1601,1783 and
> 1453 (I think this later one is Kuwae that is being found in the Ice Cores
> in the Antarctic. However 1032 is 6 sigma and it may be the Baitoushan
> event which you say is 1010 +/- 50 years or the Billy Mitchell event.
>
> I hope all's well with you.
>
> Cheers
> Phil
>
> PS Britain seems to have found it's Pat Michaels/Fred Singer/Bob Balling/
> Dick Lindzen. Our population is only 25 % of yours so we only get 1 for
> every 4 you have. His name in case you should come across him is
> Piers Corbyn. He is nowhere near as good as a couple of yours and he's
> an utter prat but he's getting a lot of air time at the moment. For his
> day job he teaches physics and astronomy at a University and he predicts
> the weather from solar phenomena. He bets on his predictions months
> ahead for what will happen in Britain. He now believes he knows all
> there is to know about the global warming issue. He's not all bad as
> he doesn't have much confidence in nuclear-power safety. Always says
> that at the begining of his interviews to show he's not all bad !
>
> Cheers Again
>
> Phil
> Dr Phil Jones
> Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 xxx xxxx xxxx
> School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 xxx xxxx xxxx
> Norwich Email [email protected]
> NR4 7TJ
> UK
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Dear Neville,
You mentioned to me some time ago that in your view, the 11-year solar cycle
did not influence temperature. There have been numerous attempts by
academics to establish a correlation, but each has been shot down on some
ground or other. I remember Barrie Pittock was especially dismissive of
attempts to correlate solar cycle with temperature.
Load "Mathematica" into your PC and run the following set of instructions -
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So Far so good.
The first part of the instruction set lets "mathematica" do a Fourier Transform
on the data, ie. searching out the periodicities, if there are any. The result is
shown on Attachment 2.
The transform result shows a sharp spike at the 11 year point (I wonder
what is significant about 11 years?). The second part of the instructions
now acts upon this observed spike (the Cos 11 bit), to extract it's
waveform from the rest of the noise. The result is shown as a waveform
in attachment 3, the waves having an 11-year period, with the long-term
Sydney warming easily evident.
Attachment 4 shows the original Sydney data overlaid against the 11-year
periodicity.
It would appear that the solar cycle does indeed affect temperature.
(I tried the same run on the CRU global temperature set. Even though CRU
must be highly smoothed by the time all the averages are worked out, the
11-year pulse is still there, albeit about half the size of Sydneys).
Stay cool.
Dear Doug,
In response to Jay Fein's e-mail re den-cen, here are some points (which
may merely echo where you are already).
(2) How to study den-cen? Models and observed data are equally
important. Models (coupled O/AGCMs) can only give the internal component
of variability, instrumental and paleodata give internal-plus-external.
There are other well known proxy data issues that need careful thought...
(d) Signal-to-noise problems---a key issue is, what role has external
forcing had on climate over the past 10,000 years. There is a tendency
to interpret observed changes as evidence of external forcing---usually
unjustifiably. Few workers in the area realize that paleo interpretation
has a detection aspect, just like interpreting the past 100+ years---only
much more difficult. More work is needed on this.
(f) Coverage---what about den-cen data from the oceans? We need much
more of this, especially in regions that might provide insights into
mechanisms (like NADW changes).
(4) Causes. Here, ice cores are more valuable (CO2, CH4 and volcanic
aerosol changes). But the main external candidate is solar, and more
work is required to improve the "paleo" solar forcing record and to
understand how the climate system responds both globally and regionally
to solar forcing.
Cheers,
Tom
P.S. I've added Ben Santer, Tim Barnett, Ed Cook, Keith Briffa, Malcolm
Hughes, Ray Bradley and Phil Jones to your mailing list.
Dave
You're right, smoothing the P-E field is a much bigger change than adding
a bit of noise, or the statistical model feedback. But some papers give the
indication that the strong instability/variability of the thermohaline
circulation under traditional mixed boundary conditions cannot possibly
occur when a more realistic SST condition is used. Yet that's not true
of some current models - e.g.:
The answer is that the stability depends on the relative buoyancy forcing of
heat and fresh-water, as you've pointed in both you're papers. Freeing up
the SST increases the stabilising (not static stability, but stability of the
model's state) effect of the heat flux - but doesn't GUARANTEE that it will
be stronger than the fresh-water flux effect. To be realistic, the fresh-water
flux used should ideally be the observed flux - I agree that a diagnosed field
hides model errors. Its similar to the flux correction or no flux correction
dilemna of coupled models - do you want a realistic state with unrealistic
processes, or a possibly unrealistic state with realistic processes. Either
way, the response of the model to perturbations cannot be guaranteed to be
realistic. The best current way is to do both. Then, with luck, the real
world will lie between the two answers obtained.
You have some interesting papers on your WWW page - the Marginal Sea model
looks very innovative. Also, the LSG/EBM experiment with the open Panama
Isthmus shows good results. What P-E forcing field did you use for that run,
and what small-scale coupling coefficient?
Cheers,
I look forward to seeing you in October. Very best wishes. Needless to say, if I
can offer any help with drafting the white paper or similar
I am happy to oblige.
cheers
Keith
Gary,
it's great to hear from you. The stuff you are doing is very interesting
to say the least. From the details you give the precip. stuff looks the more
relevant for the Holocene though I note that you don't have a manuscript
yet. The other stuff is of course interesting but I would have to see it
and the board would want the larger implications of the stats clearly
phrased in general and widely understandable ( by the ignorant masses) terms
before they would consider it not too specialised. I suspect that this
might not be straight forward. Are you not being (in the time honoured Don
Graybill fashion) too demanding of the response function results when you
say deriving a transfer function is not justified? We all strive for
perfection but does it exist? Seriously , it would be easier as regards
publication policy to get the Editor to accept a reconstruction/reconstruction
based paper than one describing chronology inferences.
I don't know whether this is any use but I hope you'll send us something.
I also hope life going O.K. for you these days. I can't see me getting to
Tucson for some considerable time and I don't suppose you have any plans
for cruising this way so I'll see you when I see you.
keep in touch and let me know what you you decide.
the best to you
Keith
Dear Stepan
I have received the receipts. Thankyou.
Unfortunately I have also heard that our request to COPERNICUS was not
successfull. I am very disappointed about this. The letter I recieved
said that the proposal " was not considered relevant" so you can imagine
that I am seriously exploring what this is all about. I have just returned
from a PEP3 meeting in Paris . I tried to emphasise how important the Russian
work is and , of course , our collaboration. I am relly angry that our proposal
was not considered by referees - just rejected by the committee.
Thanks for the piece for the Web page - It is already on. It is now
more important than ever that we publish some papers over the next few months
on the different aspects of the network reconstructions and the long series.
Have you considered my suggestion to think about a long,detailed paper on
the Yamal work for submission to The Holocene? I am happy to help as much
as possible with such an effort. I am glad you are safely home and I send
my best wishes to you all.
Keith
Keith,
Not having seen the sites I can only speculate, but I'd be
optimistic if someone could get back there and spend more time
collecting samples, particularly at the upper elevations.
Yeah, I doubt I'll be over your way anytime soon. Too bad, I'd like
to get together with you and Ed for a beer or two. Probably
someday though.
Cheers, Gary
Gary Funkhouser
Lab. of Tree-Ring Research
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
phone: (5xxx xxxx xxxx
fax: (5xxx xxxx xxxx
e-mail: [email protected]
Dear Keith,
enclosed are data concerning Yamal chronology.
1 - list of samples: 139 subfossil samples (checked only),
covered time span from about 350 BC and 18 samples from living
trees (jah- from Yada river, m- and x- Hadyta river, por- from
Portsa river);
2 - general chronology (1248 BC - 1994 AD). I have some little
doubt about 360 BC - may be it is false. It was found that
in chronology I sent you before 155 BC was false ring;
3 - ring widths of living trees from Yada and Hadyta;
4 - ring widths of living trees from Portsa. Some of them didn't
include in chronology, because were not measured at that time;
5 - ring widths of subfossil trees. Zero means that ring didn't
find on sample.
I don't send description of collection sites, deposits and etc.
for the present. Some details you can find in our article
(Shiyatov,...., Loosli). By the way, do you know something about
its fate?
Please, inform me if you have any questions about these data.
Sincerely yours,
Rashit Hantemirov
Keith,
This is my first draft of the dendrochronology feature. I wonder if you have time
to go through look. I hope you recognise the quotes, but please makes changes if
they think they misrepresent you. And if you can answer any of the questions in
square brackets that would be most useful.
Ideally, can you not change the full text but make notes, remarks, answers
referring to it.
Regards
--Fred Pearce
It was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the past xxx xxxx xxxxyears. Mount
Changbai [correct?] in China blasted 50 cubic kilometres of rock into the air and
deluged much of the far east with hot pumice. Radiocarbon dated the explosion at
early in the 11th century. But it took Keith Briffa, sitting in his office in
Norwich and juggling data from tree rings round the world, to pinpoint the precise
year: 1032.
Volcanoes scatter the atmosphere with dust that deflects sunlight and cools the
world beneath for a year or more. And when the world cools, trees grow less. That
year's growth rings are smaller and less dense.
By analysing those rings, Briffa and his colleagues at the Climatic Research Unit
in the University of East Anglia have charted these sudden and dramatic shocks to
the climate system, from Changbai to Pinatubo in 1991. Larches in the forests of
the northern Urals, for instance, have revealed that 1032 was the coldest summer
there in a thousand years, more than 6 degrees cooler than the long-term average.
Four of the five coldest summers in Europe and North America during the past four
centuries (1601, 1641, 1669, and 1912) coincided with known major volcanic events.
"We are pretty certain the fifth one, in 1699, did too," says Briffa. "But the
geologists haven't found the volcano yet."
It is clever work. But the science of tree-ring analysis, dendrochronology, is
more than just a party piece for botanists. Every ring in every tree round the
world contains a memory of the climate the year it was formed. Reading these rings
holds the potential, Briffa believes, to answer one of the most vital questions of
our time: has human activity started to warm the planet?
With colleagues in laboratories and field stations from Dublin to eastern Siberia,
he has within the past year [correct?] begun an attempt to construct a history,
year by year, of temperatures across northern Europe and Asia over the past xxx
xxxx xxxxyears, right back to the waning of the last ice age. The tam, funded by
the European Union, hope to help show whether the warming seen across the planet
in the past century, and especially since around 1980, is within the limits of
normal natural variability, or the start of man-made global warming.
Many researchers most intimately involved in the search are still far from sure
how the probabilities balance. And some of the sharpest concerns are coming from
the places where the original early warnings of global warming emerged in the mid-
1980s. Places such as Briffa's base at the Climatic Research Unit in Norwich, and
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.
Few investigators doubt that the world has warmed recently. Nor that the enhanced
"greenhouse effect" of pollution from gases such as carbon dioxide, will warm the
planet. But in the past five years, climate researchers have growing increasingly
aware of how little they really know about the natural variability from which they
must pick out the "signal" of human influence.
One prominent IPCC researcher concerned about this gap in knowledge is Simon Tett
from the Hadley Centre for climate modelling at the Meteorological Office, home to
one of the world's five leading global circulation models, capable of recreating a
mathematical version of how the atmosphere works and of running simulations of
climatic changes over decades or even centuries. He says that "in the past, our
estimates of natural variability have been based on climate models." But this
autumn [date?], he says, those estimates have been thrown into turmoil by a paper
published in the journal The Holocene. In it, Tim Barnett of the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California at San Diego,
compared model estimates of natural temperature fluctuations over the past 400
years with the best evidence from the real world -- from instruments in the past
century and "proxy data", such as Briffa's tree rings, from before that.
The result was bad news for the modellers. The two models examined -- one German,
the other American -- generated a natural variability of around 0.1 degree C per
century. This was less than half that revealed in the proxy data. "Of course we
don't have to believe the proxy data. They certainly have problems attached to
them. But my belief is that they both models, and proxy data too, underestimate
real variability," says Barnett
The models' error was not, perhaps, too surprising. As Barnett points out, they do
not include vital "forcing" mechanisms that alter temperature, such as solar
cycles and volcanic eruptions. Nor can they yet mimic the strength of the largest
year-on-year variability in the natural system, the El Nino oscillation in the
Pacific Ocean, which has a global impact on climate.
Nonetheless, the findings should serve as a warning, Barnett says, that "the
current models cannot be used in rigorous tests for anthropogenic signals in the
real world". If they are they "might lead us to believe that an anthropogenic
signal had been found when, in fact, that may not be the case."
Barnett knows how easily this can happen. He was a lead author for a critical
chapter in the last IPCC scientific assessment, which investigated "the detection
of climate change and attribution of causes". It formulated the IPCC case that the
evidence points towards a human influence on climate, but it warned repeatedly
that great uncertainties remained. "We wrote a long list of caveats in that
chapter," says Barnett. "We got a lot of static from within IPCC, from people who
wanted to water down and delete some of those caveats. We had to work very hard to
keep them all in." Even so, when the findings were first leaked to the New York
Times, it was under the headline "Scientists finally confirm human role in global
warming".
Suggestive though the evidence may be, Barnett and his co-authors insist that the
uncertainties, especially concerning natural variability, have to be answered. And
so, suddenly, the modellers are queuing at Briffa's door to find out what his
tree-ring data shows about the real world beyond the computer simulations. "Five
years ago, climate modellers wanted nothing to do with the palaeo community," says
Briffa with a grin. "But now they realise that they need our data. We can help
them to define natural variability." He has already collaborated with Barnett.
Tett paid his first visit to the dendrochronology lab in November [1996].
And so to the forests of Europe and Asia where, over the next [how many?] years
Briffa will coordinate the work of colleagues in a dozen countries who hope to
dramatically increase the available proxy data on past climate change. Much of the
best data so far has come from the forests round Lake Tornetrask, on the northern
border of Sweden, deep inside the Arctic Circle. This is near the northern limit
for Scots pine, a place where their growth rate of the trees can be massively
altered by small perturbations in summer temperatures. The result is dramatic
differences in the thickness and density of tree rings.
The head of this work is Professor W [full first name?] Karlen [ed: acute on e], a
geographer at the University of Stockholm, who over many years has taken cores
from living trees and from logs and stumps hauled from old peat bogs. Despite the
harsh climate, there are living trees here up to 600 years old. And the chronology
can be extended ever further by analysing the dead trees. So far the climate
reconstruction is complete for more than 1400 years before the present; the aim
now is to extent it up to 8000 years.
The best data, says Briffa, comes from analysing both ring width and the maximum
density of wood in each ring. By firing X-rays through the wood, researchers can
now analyse the density of rings as little as 30 microns across -- the equivalent
of a tree's girth growing by a centimetre every century. The growth of cell walls
late in the growing season creates the densest wood and, says Briffa, "appears to
depend directly on the average mean temperature".
Even so, ring growth is a product of many factors, including the genetics of the
tree, past climate, the age of the tree and soil moisture. The relationships
between ring growth and summer temperature are not a precise. But comparisons
between the recent rings and known climatic data show that the rings can capture
at least half of the summer temperature variability.
The temperature graphs produced at Tornetrask show "pronounced variability on all
timescales, from year-on-year variations right up to century-on-century," says
Briffa. On the longer timescales, for instance, they show 20 major cooling periods
during the past two millenia, including long spells between 500 and 850, between
1100 and 1350 and between 1580 and 1750, the little ice age. There were also long
warm spells between 900 and 1100, known as the medieval warm period, and 1360 to
1560. [ed: show graph from NERC paper].
Further back, early results suggest a strong warm era from 4000 to 3300 BC, and a
cool period ending around 5070 BC. But there are intriguing gaps, for which no
tree rings can be found. These, says Briffa, "suggest some major calamity that
destroyed trees. Volcanoes, perhaps, or a rapid rise in the water tables." A 19-
year gap between 1130 and 1111 BC, for instance, coincides with volcanic ash
showing up in Greenland ice.
"What all this means," says Briffa, "is that the old image of the xxx xxxx
xxxxyears since the end of the last ice age -- the Holocene era -- as climatically
tranquil looks increasingly inaccurate." Hence the intense interest in the EU
project, which will attempt to reconstruct those xxx xxxx xxxxyears of climate
right across northern Europe and Asia, from Ireland to the Sea of Okhotsk, from
the borders of Mongolia to shores of the Arctic Ocean.
During the past summer, helicopters flying low over the tundra have spotted logs
in hundreds of small lakes in the Tornetrask region of northern Sweden. Karlen has
donned his diving suit to help remove samples of timber from the freezing waters
[did he?]. In northern Finland, local diving clubs picked some 3000 samples from
lakes.
In the Arctic wastes of northern Siberia, a major survey is being conducted on the
Taimyr peninsula, the largest stretch of frozen tundra in Eurasia and far north of
today's tree line. There are well-preserved logs buried in river sediments here
that grew between 5000 and 8000 years ago. On the Yamal Peninsula, just east of
the Ural mountains on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, wood dug from the permafrost
grew in conditions so cold that some summers temperatures never exceeded the
threshold for growth of about 5 degrees C, so no growth rings formed. Nonetheless
Yamal is the only site so far found that yields tree rings right through a gap at
300 BC. "Interestingly, the Yamal rings show this to have been the coldest period
in the entire run," says Briffa.
Other, less detailed, surveys are being carried out across the whole of the north
of the two continents. And this winter the timber is being analysed at
laboratories in Copenhagen and Birmensdorf -- the Swiss home of Fritz
Schweingruber, one of the world's top tree-ring analysts. The project will also
carry out new analysis on the large numbers of samples of ancient oak already
stored in laboratories in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and
Sweden. The oak has been dragged from bogs and river beds, or liberated from
archaeological sites and even the beams of old houses over the past 30 years.
"There is a massive amount of data on existing European oak rings. But much of it
was done in the 1970s, and then not updated," says Briffa. One of Britain's
biggest collections, at Sotterley Park near Lowestoft in Suffolk [Keith: who runs
this?], has ring data going back to 1580. "But it stops in the 1980s, missing the
recent major droughts. We have got to update that information."
Already, the first long data sets are starting to emerge from Siberia. Last summer
[ed: 13 July 1995], Briffa, Schweingruber and Stepan Shiyatov of the Institute of
Plant and Animal Ecology at Ekaterunburg in the Russian Urals published a paper on
"unusual 20th-century summer warmth in a 1000-year temperature record from
Siberia". A complete tree-ring chronology from AD 914, pieced together from
larches on the Yamal peninsula, suggested that average summer temperatures since
1901 have been higher than for any similar length of time during the chronology.
It estimated that from 1600, the depth of the little ice age, to the present day
there has been a 1.14 degrees C warming. The first eight decades of the 20th
century were 0.13 degrees C warmer than the next warmest period, nine centuries
before in1202-91.
The chronology also showed that Europe's "little ice age" extended east of the
Urals, but that the medieval warm period did not. But these long trends disguise
sharp short-term anomalies. The 11th century seems to have been a particularly
turbulent time in the Urals. 1032, the year of the Changbai eruption, yielded the
coldest summer in a thousand years. But the following year was the second warmest
of the millenium, at 2.11 degrees above the mean.
Tree rings are not the only source of proxy temperature data. Layers of ice laid
down annually in permanent ice sheets, such as those in Greenland and Antarctica,
carry a temperature record in the isotopic composition of the ice. Corals also
have a temperature imprint, and even sediments on continental shelves can be mined
for climate information. The most work, so far, has been done on ice sheets.
American and European researchers in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP), for
instance, have drilled for 3 kilometres into the ice pack, going back more than
xxx xxxx xxxxyears. Besides plotting the course of the last ice age, they have
found evidence of constant climate shifts during the past xxx xxxx xxxxyears.
Briffa says tree rings and ice cores "complement each other, focusing best at
different timescales." Tree rings show annual and decade-to-decade variations very
clearly. But they do not go back so far, and are not so good at spotting change
from millenium to millenium. Ring analysis seems to smooth out long-term trends,
probably because trees slowly adapt to these changes, disguising them." On the
other hand, ice-core data shows up long-term trends very clearly, but is poor at
showing single-year changes. The melting and refreezing of ice in the surface of
ice packs means that the ice from individual years tends to mingle together.
Under the IPCC umbrella, Barnett and Phil Jones of the CRU have formed a small
"detections group", to look for these tell-tale patterns. "We are systematically
looking at the patterns, past and present, of all the main forcings on climate,"
Barnett says. They will investigate how the world's climate systems respond to
volcanoes, to changes in the ocean circulation, to solar cycles and so on. "Then
we will compare those patterns with what we are seeing today. What we hope is that
the current patterns of temperature change prove distinctive, quite different from
the patterns of natural variability in the past." And if that turns out to be the
case, he says, "we will be able to close down this issue of attribution, perhaps
within three to five years."
Here, the climate models will again come into play. If current climate change also
accords with what the models predict from global warming, then the "hand of man"
will indeed look to be on the planet's thermostat.
The models all suggest that anthropogenic global warming will show a very
distinctive pattern. For instance, they predict that anthropogenic warming will be
greatest in the northern latitudes of the great continental land masses, such as
Eurasia. And that makes the finding of Briffa's team that summer temperatures in
northern Siberia are higher than for a millenium potentially extremely important.
And the prospect of further data from this region to confirm that finding so
intriguing.
Briffa grins at the prospect. "The trend seems to be accelerating. We are getting
reports back from Stepan, our man in the Urals, that it was warmer this spring on
the Yamal peninsula there than ever before, and tree growth has been absolutely
fantastic. It is a major warming, like nothing seen there for a thousand years --
and it is what the climate models predict." Caution prevails, but the elusive
pattern of man-made global warming may just be emerging amid the larch groves on
the sunny hills of northern Siberia.
ends
Dear Rashit,
As always I seem to have been away bullshiting and politiking in
various meetings for weeks! I try to convince myself that this is of use to us as
a dendrochronological community but I am not so sure how much that is really
true these days. I have the data you sent and I had to get someone here to
decode it for me . That is fine now so I would like to try and reformat and RCS it
. I will be back in touch soon. Your paper is in review for Denrochronologia.
I am very keen to get a much more detailed paper in The Holocene dealing with
this stuff and I hope you and Stepan will consider this - perhaps for some time in
spring next year. Sorry I wasn't in touch sooner. Please give my regards
to Stepan and Valerie.
very best wishes
Keith
Dear Rashit,
In looking at the data I now see that you have only sent data from abot 350bc
onwards. What is the situation with the earlier data. I am very interested in the
details of the 1st millennium B.C. and especially this period from about
500 to 100 B.C. We still have a gap in the Tornetrask data at about 350 B.C.
I was of the opinion that this period was very low growth in the chronology of
yours shown by Stepan in Cambridge - but it does not seem so low in the
chronology he gave me. What are your thoughts on this and is it possible to get
the earlier data when you are happy with them?Thanks very best wishes
Keith
Eugene
I have not received my copy of the book. A message to Malcolm is
the best idea. I have been experimenting with the Yamal data mostly trying
to fit RCS curves - and am finding problems with recent local chronologies
behaving oddly - i.e. too much growth in recent years makes it difficult to
derive a valid age/growth curve. I have produced a rcs standardised curve
for taimyr and will fax a copy to you. I will send comments to you and stepan
on the two papers reviewed for dendrocronologia on the development of the yamal
and taimyr chronologies. I have made major changes to the tracheid paper and need
to type and send the new version to you - also there are problems understanding
some bits - I will ask specific questions. How goes the organisation of the
Krasnoyarsk meeting?
Stepan /Rashit I have had some comments on the Yamal paper that I will try to
email tommorow.
best wishes
Keith
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: 1996 global temperatures
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:23 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Phil
Remember all the fun we had last year over 1995 global temperatures,
with early release of information (via Oz), "inventing" the December
monthly value, letters to Nature etc etc?
5. We feed this selectively to Nick Nuttall (who has had this in the
past and seems now to expect special treatment) so that he can write
an article for the silly season. We could also give this to Neville
Nicholls??
6. We explain that data is provisional and how the data has been
created so early (ie the estimate for Dec) and also
7. We explain why the globe is 0.23k (or whatever the final figure is)
cooler than 95 (NAO reversal, slight La Nina). Also that global annual
avg is only accuirate to a few hundredths of a degree (we said this
last year - can we be more exact, eg PS/MS 0.05K or is this to big??)
8. FROM NOW ON WE ANSWER NO MORE ENQUIRIES ABOUT 1996 GLOBAL TEMPS BUT
EXPLAIN THAT IT WILL BE RELEASED IN JANUARY.
10. For questions after the release to Nuttall, (I late Dec, early
Jan) we give the same answer as we gave him.
Are you happy with this, or can you suggest something better (ie
simpler)? I know it sound a bit cloak-and-dagger but its just meant to
save time in the long run.
Cheers
Geoff
Hm, clearly coordination between the two (if it really ends up as two)
groups is absolutely essential, otherwise we would look entirely
stupid. The first thing that comes to my mind is that nitrogen would be
emphasizing a component of our overall idea which otherwise would not
receive great attention - hence it could be, perhaps, amalgamated. They
probably see it the other way around: In their problem, climatic
variability comes second in importance. My view on this is that all of
our model intercomparisons have shown that models essentially do crazy
things with interannual variability, simply because nobody ever has
tested them for that in any detail. Esser's model would probably be the
last candidate to use here, since it is "less mechanistic" than any of
the others - in fact, Colin and I seemed to agree to "not necessarily"
include it into this proposal. These are just some thoughts for the
moment.
I just finished a very first, rough draft of our outline, and I attach
it to the end of this message. I have just sent it to Martin Heimann,
but I have still not yet talked to him. I also send this whole thing to
Colin, hoping that he will catch the thread through it without
problems. Gerard Dedieu is the one I want to approach next - Alberte is
already talking to him about this in the context with other things.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
Goal
Dear Keith,
we received your letters concerning our paper for Dendrochronologia
and three long chronologies.
1. As regards individual ring width data of living trees from
Yamal we would remind you that you have them. Stepan gave to you
in England one diskette. There are data for Larix sibirica from
three sites (KHA - from Khadyta river, 67812'N 69850'E; JAH -
from Yahody river 67807'N 69854'E and POR - from Portsa river
67827'N 71800'E) and for Picea obovata from two points (SCH -
Shtshutshya river 66849'N 69850'E and KHD - from Khadyta river
67807'N 69854'E).
2. We would be very gratefull if you can do some corrections and
additions in the paper for Dendrochronologia. We did not quite
understand what we have to do on missing rings? Just enumerate
years when missing rings occur? If so, these are following years:
Dear David/Mike,
Thanks for sending me the ECLAT 2 proposal. First, let me say that I support
the idea of a continued role for activities co-ordinating and facilitating
the provision of climate change information for EC impacts research and
other related research and policy. ECLAT 2 is one way of achieving this, but
the fact that it is a Concerted Action Initiative imposes some limitations.
The major limitation is that CAIs are not supposed to involve original
research. They are networking activities, with a view on forging research
links and developing new research projects. In my view, there is a need for
a number of targetted research activities on scenario development, that
might be covered by the themes of the workshops you are suggesting in ECLAT
2, but which would be best served by some dedicated research projects. It
really isn't satisfactory to wait until the end of ECLAT 2 before embarking
on research. Many of the key topics are already known, and although research
may be proceeding in some of these areas (especially in downscaling
techniques, scenario development techniques, etc.), what is still lacking is
co-ordination across Europe in the selection and application of climate
change scenarios in impact assessment. In my view, there are two areas in
sore need of targetted research:
(1) A project to analyse all available information from GCMs and historical
data, which will provide some uncertainty bounds on the anticipated future
climate in Europe (by region) for use in policy as well as in impacts
assessment. Such a project should involve GCM groups (interpreting the GCM
outputs), scenario developers (who can apply methods of generalising across
a lot of GCM predictions and emissions scenarios, etc.), and a few impact
analysts, who can advise on suitable scenarios for use in a variety of
applications (entry level or basic scenarios).
However, unless you have a project proposal in the pipeline at CRU (?) I
don't think there is now time to develop a new proposal to meet the 15
January deadline.
1. It is unclear to me how Figure 1 relates to the text. The arrows are not
well differentiated in the fax version I have, and the boxes are not explained.
3. PLEASE REMOVE the reference to ECLAIR - there is no such name! This was a
light- hearted emailed suggestion for ECLAT 2, not for Martin's CA which
doesn't have a name to my knowledge.
4. In the suggested steering committee, I would strengthen the
representation of the impacts community. This could be done by time horizon:
e.g. one hydrologist to cover a range of time periods from sub-daily to
century scale; one forester or soils expert for the long term, one
agriculture person for the medium term (maybe I could represent this
community), desertification/erosion/fire risk person for short to medium
term and/or an integrated assessment person (perhaps three or four persons).
You should try to avoid the group being dominated by GCM'lers (do all GCM
groups have to be represented?)
Best wishes,
Tim
************************************
Dr. Timothy Carter
Affiliation: Agricultural Research Centre of Finland
Postal address: c/o Finnish Meteorological Institute
Box 503, FIN-00101 Helsinki, FINLAND
Dear Mike,
Thanks for your detailed reply concerning Scengen and CC:Train. I was not
proposing to incorporate Scengen in a major way into the training package,
and I am quite aware of the problems of consistency regarding aerosol
effects, natural variability, etc. Rather, I thought that the training
package would be an excellent way to introduce the existence of Scengen
(and MAGICC) to the Country Teams which are responsible for coordinating
national assessments. (the intention was NOT to provide intensive
technical training in its use -- the country team members are largely
coordinators, not technical climate experts). In this way, when it comes
time to actually carry out the national assessments, Scengen would be
recognised as a major tool for scenario generation and, if appropriate, CRU
could be contacted regarding its application, technical training or
collaboration. You had mentioned to me at the IPCC meeting in London that
one of your major aims was to get Scengen recognised as the "standard" for
scenario generation for impact assessments, and I simply thought I saw a
way of furthering that aim through the CC:Train mechanism.
Given the training programmes that you are currently proposing through
ENRICH and others, I can understand your fears that we might "muddy the
waters". Let me pose the following options; that we
Frankly, I am quite happy with any of these. The part on climate change
scenarios is really only a small bit of the overall V&A training package in
any case.
Cheers,
Dick
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From: Mike Hulme[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 16 January 1997 00:45
To: Richard Warrick
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Scengen and CC:Train
Dick,
You've posed me a tricky one re. SCENGEN and my answer about it being
incorporated into the CC:Train package as a component tool is going to have
to be 'no'. Let me explain.
With this background I do not want SCENGEN (and especially the old DOS
version) 'leaking' out into the climate training community at this stage.
My feeling is that by all means use SCENGEN within CEARS in thinking about
the training package and coming up with some off-line examples (either
sample scenarios or guided sensitivity), but do _not_ incorporate it in the
package. [By the way SCENGEN does not have imaginery countries!]. If
people want more detailed thinking on scenarios then you could always refer
them to CRU (which is what our speciality is).
Good luck with CC:Train anyway and I'm sure you'll come up with something
good.
Regards,
Mike
Mean temperature in C.England during 1996 was 0.3degC below the 1xxx xxxx xxxx
average.
The maximum temperature in Norwich: Tuesday 13 January: 9.1degC.
Hi Keith:
As you are aware, the situation in Russia is very uncertain with their
unfortunate economic condition, especially science support. There is
interest, hope, and dots on maps showing intent but actual activity is
difficult to judge. In the particular area I am interested in, the Taymyr,
there is no current active tree-ring research going on although it has been
previously sampled and some reports are in preparation. Ed probably told
you that I have submitted a proposal to do work there. My understanding is
that unless there is some external funding support, such as my project,
tree-ring sampling there is in abeyance. Several people, including
yourself, recognize the great potential in the region. From my perspective
it seems that the Polar Urals are being studied, Yokutia to the far east is
being studied, some work has been done by Szeicz and Macdonald at the Lena
but there is need for more intensive effort in Taymyr. I would like to hear
your perspective on the situation.
I am also curious to hear any comments you care to make about my recent
letter to Fritz Schweingruber. He obviously will pursue any style of
sampling and analyses he chooses to. My only contention is that he should
not represent his data as the definitive tree-ring information,
particularly ring-width data. His opinions are influential but there is an
accumulating body of ring-width data that clearly shows him to be missing
much important information with his style of sampling. Scientists and
others should be aware of this fact.
Cheers, Gordon
DISCUSSION PAPER
1. Introduction
These global base year values are well within the range given by
global sulfur emission inventories of 4 to 45 MtS natural sources
and 65 to 90 MtS anthropogenic sources in 1990 (IPCC, 1995:xxx xxxx xxxx).
A comparison of 1990 base year sulfur emission values from a number
of scenarios and integrated assessment models is enclosed as
attachment.
A first important task for the new IPCC scenarios is therefore to update the
regional sulfur emissions baseline values with the results of
latest regional sulfur emissions inventories. Such inventories are available
for Europe through EMEP and CORINAIR, North America (NAPAP), and more
recently also for Asia (e.g. the Worldbank sulfur project, Foell et al., 1995).
4. Data requirements
There are two major sets of driving force variable that influence
future sulfur emissions. 1. Level and structure of energy supply and end
use, and 2. degree of sulfur control policies assumed. (Because of the
dominance of energy related sulfur emissions, they should receive
particular attention in the new scenarios. Industrial sources could
be included in the scenarios with much a simpler driving force
model, e.g. coupling to industrial output.)
Ceteris paribus, highest sulfur emissions occur in scenarios of high demand
growth, rapid resource depletion, limited technological change and absence
of sulfur control policies outside OECD countries. In terms of energy
supply structures such scenarios imply a massive use of coal, including
synfuel production. Typical examples would include the IS92e
and IS92f scenarios. Up to ca. 2050 sulfur emissions in such
scenarios roughly grow in line with fossil fuel use and resulting
carbon emissions, i.e. a roughly constant sulfur to carbon emissions
ratio. Post 2050, still in absence of sulfur control policies,
growth rates of sulfur emissions start to fall short of growth in
fossil fuel use due to the internal technology logic of synfuel
production: synfuel production requires prior coal conversion (e.g.
gasification) and removal of sulfur prior to further conversion,
e.g. to synliquids. Ceteris paribus, therefore sulfur emissions
relative to those of carbon decline.
Next to environmental impacts and policies, there are also other key
relationships that need to be considered for the formulation of
future sulfur scenarios. For instance, the literature on
environmental Kuznets curves (cf. e.g. World Bank, 1992, or
IIASA-WEC, 1995) argues that with increasing affluence and valuation
of environmental goods, sulfur emissions decline. This hypothesis
is corroborated by both longitudinal and cross-sectional empirical
data. Thus, in the process of industrialization and economic development,
emissions rise initially, pass through a maximum (say at income levels
around 2000 $/capita) and decline thereafter with rising per capita incomes
and the resulting preference of cleaner end-use fuels, valuation of clean
environments, etc.
06.03.97
fAJL partid.txt
fAJL power.txt
Laboratory of Dendrochronology
Institute of Forest SB RAS
Krasnoyarsk
Dr.Eugene A.Vaganov
5 March, 1997
fAJL projid.txt
fAJL sum.txt
4.2. SUMMARY
This research will make a major contribution to our knowledge of
high-resolution climate variability at high latitudes of Western
and Middle Siberia throughout the Holocene using the unique
potential of tree-ring data.
fAJL workpro.txt
3.1 TITLE
Multi-millennial-length dendroclimatic reconstructions
at high-latitude regions of Siberia
3.2 OBJECTIVES
This research will make a major contribution to our knoweledge of
high-resolution climate variability at high latitudes of Western
and Middle Siberia throughout the Holocene using the unique
potential of tree-ring data.
3.3. BACKGROUND
Reconstruction and analysis of natural climatic changes through
the whole Holocene at high latitudes are of great importance as
climatic conditions, especially air temperature, are most
variable and sensitive to various forcing functions (Budyko,
1980; Jones and Kelly, 1983; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, 1990). However, there are a minute quantity of long,
precisely-dated and high-resolution proxy climatic series for
these regions.
The territory of Yamal Peninsula located on the eastern boundary
of influence of the Atlantic air masses and the territory of the
eastern part of Taimyr Peninsula located between the Arctic High
and Siberian High are of major importance for monitoring regional
and global-mean air temperatures and assessing theories and
models concerned with past, current and future climate changes
(Lamb, 1977; Briffa and Jones, 1993; Moses et al., 1987).
3.5.2 PLANNING
To carry-out the objectives of this proposal the workers of the
Russian laboratories will carry out an intensive collecting
subfossil wood during summers of 1xxx xxxx xxxxat two high-latitude
locations (Yamal and Taimyr peninsulas) using helicopters, boats
and ships. To finish the development of the Yamal chronology it
is necessary to collect additionally no less than xxx xxxx xxxxcuts of
subfossil wood. Much more intensive collecting (xxx xxxx xxxxcuts for
two field seasons) is needed to develop the Taimyr chronology.
All samples collected during these two years and earlier will be
measured and cross-dated at Ekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk
laboratories until the middle of 1999.
3.5.3 EQUIPMENT
Participants of the proposed project have the necessary equipment
for fieldwork, measuring equipment and compatible software.
>To: [email protected]
>Organization: ECOLOGY INSTITUTE
>From: "Tatiana M. Dedkova" <[email protected]>
>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 14:19:37 +0500
>Return-Receipt-To: [email protected]
>Subject: from Rashit
>Return-Receipt-To: [email protected]
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>
>Dear Keith,
>we received your letters concerning our paper for Dendrochronologia
>and three long chronologies.
>1. As regards individual ring width data of living trees from
>Yamal we would remind you that you have them. Stepan gave to you
>in England one diskette. There are data for Larix sibirica from
>three sites (KHA - from Khadyta river, 67812'N 69850'E; JAH -
>from Yahody river 67807'N 69854'E and POR - from Portsa river
>67827'N 71800'E) and for Picea obovata from two points (SCH -
>Shtshutshya river 66849'N 69850'E and KHD - from Khadyta river
>67807'N 69854'E).
>2. We would be very gratefull if you can do some corrections and
>additions in the paper for Dendrochronologia. We did not quite
>understand what we have to do on missing rings? Just enumerate
>years when missing rings occur? If so, these are following years:
>
> Year absent % ind % Year absent % ind %
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>-1xxx xxxx xxxxof xxx xxxx xxxx% xxx xxxx xxxxof xxx xxxx xxxx% 31
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>
>We have to note that frequency of missing rings on increment
>cores of living trees higher, because on samples of subfossil
>trees we try to find this kind of rings on whole disc.
>Some periods are notable for missing rings: xxx xxxx xxxxBC, 882 BC,
>143 AD, xxx xxxx xxxxAD (especially 640 AD), xxx xxxx xxxxAD, 1453 AD
>and beginning of 1800th AD.
>3. Stepan ask what about book by Bailey?
>Best wishes,
>Rashit
>
>
Dear Keith,
After our long silence we would like inform you about our
sucesses, problems and plans.
We wish you and your family the best. We wish the same to
Phil Jones and his family.
Sincerely yours
Stepan Shiyatov and Rashit Hantemirov
Dear Keith,
Dear Keith,
I am not sure you received my message sent the last week from
Moscow. Therefore I decided to repeat it.
<x-rich>
Dear Participants,
Please find attached the Minutes of the SRES Meeting in Laxenburg, June 14-16.
1997.
Please note that the list of participants will be sent additionally Monday, 4th of
August.
Best regards,
Arnulf
</x-rich>
Brian Hoskins and Adrian Jenkins have both decided that they prefer not
to sign the letter, although agreeing with its message. I haven't been
able to contact anyone else in the short time available, so I leave it
up to you to decide whether you are still both happy to go ahead.
If so, Mike could you please reply to both Tony and myself and let us
know, and Tony could you then send it as agreed?
Thank you both very much for your time and trouble.
Best regards,
Helen
Dr Helen Wallace
Senior Scientist
Greenpeace UK
Letters Editor
The Times
21 June 1997
Dear Sir,
We have little idea whether or not we can manage such adverse effects
and therefore the prudent course of action is to limit the cause of the
threat.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. A.J. McMichael
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
University of London
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
Dr. M. Hulme
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
<x-rich>Dear Colleagues,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have attended the
SRES Lead Authors' meeting xxx xxxx xxxxSeptember 1997) and Rob Swart and
his colleagues from RIVM for organizing and hosting the meeting.
We have achieved a lot in the three short days as you will soon also see
from the minutes. The minutes of the meeting will be forwarded to you later this
week
together with the revised SRES work plan that we have discussed during the
meeting.
Sorry that it took a while longer this time for the completion of the minutes,
but I hope that they will refresh you memory about the outcome of the meeting.
Erik Haites just e-mailed that he returned from the IPCC plenary meeting in
Maldives and that the new IPCC Bureau has been appointed. It consists of
(Japan), and 8 Bureau members for each of the three Working Groups. The
Best regards,
Naki
<center>Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Project Leader
From: [email protected]
To: "m.hulme" <[email protected]>, "Martin.OConnor"
<[email protected]>, alcamo <[email protected]>, jaeger
<[email protected]>, dvm <[email protected]>, eepriia <[email protected]>,
hourcade <[email protected]>, "t.jackson" <[email protected]>, jaeger
<[email protected]>, vertic <[email protected]>, "pier.vellinga"
<[email protected]>, pweingart <[email protected]>, fy1
<[email protected]>
Subject: Copy of: climate: Japanese proposal
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:55:31 +0200
%
Australia 1.8
Czech Republic 5.0
Denmark 2.5
Germany 3.1
Italy 2.5
Japan 2.5
Portugal 1.6
Russia 5.0
Spain 2.2
Switzerland 1.3
UK 3.7
US 2.6
Overall reduction for all industrialised countries: 3.2 %
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WWF PRESS RELEASE
JAPAN PROPOSAL FOR KYOTO SUMMIT SCANDALOUS, WWF SAYS
KYOTO, JAPAN, 5 October 1997 ? The World Wide Fund for Nature condemned as
"scandalous" the Japanese government?s proposal for reducing greenhouse
gases responsible for climate change, Sunday, and called on industrialised
nations to flatly reject it.
As full details of the proposal emerged over the weekend, it was revealed
that Japan suggests allowing industrialised countries to make extremely
marginal reductions in their emissions by as late as 2xxx xxxx xxxx. In a
second five-year period up to 2017, countries would only be required to
ensure their emissions were lower than in 1990.
"The Japanese plan presents a bleak future for the environment, already
suffering from the serious impacts of global warming including rising
sea-levels, rising sea temperatures, and increased extreme weather patterns
? to name just a few," said Andrew Kerr of WWF?s international Climate
Change Campaign. "The plan is laughable when you consider that some
European nations already have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by several
times more than the amount Japan proposes for emission reductions more than
a decade from now."
According to the just released "WWF State of the Climate" report that
evaluates the global impacts of climate change, a long list of impacts
already are visible today including the destruction of several land and
marine ecosystems in Asia and around the world because they cannot keep up
with the pace of global warming.
The Japanese proposal also proves the government is back-tracking on a
Ministerial Declaration concluded at the 1996 climate summit in Geneva. At
that conference, 130 countries, including Japan, agreed that the Kyoto
Summit should agree on "legally-binding objectives for emission limitations
and significant overall reductions" of greenhouse gases. At the Geneva
meeting, the Ministers recognised that climate change science showed human
activities, primarily the burning of coal, oil and gasoline, are already
affecting the planet?s climate and the impacts would be wide-ranging and
irreversible, posing threats to food supplies, public health and the
survival of many species. Nations also agreed that "significant reductions
in net greenhouse gas emissions are technically possible and economically
feasible".
WWF is calling on industrial nations to cut their carbon dioxide emissions
20 percent below 1990 levels by 2005. A WWF report written by Dr. Haruki
Tsuchiya of the Research Institute for Systems Technology, in Tokyo, (to be
released by WWF later this month) shows that Japan can reduce its carbon
dioxide emissions by nearly nine percent by 2005 and by almost 15 percent
by 2010 without damaging the economy. Policies and measures suggested by
the WWF report would stimulate the economy and help position Japan as a
world leader in the development of new, energy efficient technologies.
"Environmentally, Japan?s plan is worse than no plan whatsoever because it
pretends to legitimise an emissions cut that is so low it will produce no
tangible result in the effort to combat climate change, " said Kerr. "Even
more alarming, it encourages many nations also to cut their emissions by
much less than they now plan. This proposal is an embarrassment for Japan
because it spells disaster for the Kyoto Summit in December which will be
seen as an absolute failure by several European nations and the entire
environmental community if such meagre greenhouse gas emission cuts are
adopted."
The complicated emission-reduction formulae that Japan proposes would
require Japan to make only a 2.5 percent cut in emissions. The United
States, responsible for over one-fifth of world releases of carbon dioxide,
would only need to make a 2.6 percent reduction. Highlighting the
political irrelevance of the Japanese formula, Germany, Denmark and the UK
would have to make reductions of 3.1 percent, 2.5 percent and 3.7 percent
respectively. But Germany already has achieved around half of its national
target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2005. Denmark
is aiming for a 20 percent reduction by the same date and the UK?s target
is a 20 percent cut by 2010.
Contact: Andrew Kerr or Yurika Ayukawa. Mobile tel: xxx xxxx xxxxand
Hearton Hotel, xxx xxxx xxxx.
Mike, Rob,
Sounds like you guys have been busy doing good things for the cause.
Best wishes,
Joe Alcamo
----------------------------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Joseph Alcamo, Director
Center for Environmental Systems Research
University of Kassel
Kurt Wolters Strasse 3
D-34109 Kassel
Germany
Your email to Phil Jones suggests that there are serious discrepancies between
the ECHAM1/LSG power spectrum that I computed for the 1995 Barnett et al.
Holocene paper and the ECHAM1/LSG power spectrum that Curt Covey posted on the
WWW. This is not the case. At the time that Tim Barnett, Phil Jones, Keith
Briffa and I performed the research that is the subject of the Holocene paper,
only 600 years of control run data were available from ECHAM1/LSG. This is
stated on page 256 of the Holocene paper. The first ca. xxx xxxx xxxxyears of this
control integration incorporated a large, non-linear climate drift component.
This was manifested both in globally-averaged temperature and in other climate
variables (see Santer et al., 1995, JGR 100, 10,693-10,725).
The CMIP project received data from MPI well after the completion of the
research described in the Barnett et al. paper. At that time, I believe that
1,250 years of ECHAM1/LSG control run data were made available. My
understanding is that Curt did not use the first (drift-contaminatedxxx xxxx
xxxxyears
of the ECHAM1/LSG control run when he computed the ECHAM1 spectrum displayed on
the CMIP WWW page. HIs analysis relied on the last 1,000 years of the data.
Not surprisingly, neglecting the first 250 years makes a big difference to the
computed spectrum. This is particularly apparent at low frequencies, and also
in the variance ratio (between periods of 300 and 2 years) that you compute.
I hope this clarifies things. Should you still have residual concerns about our
method of spectral analysis (which is standard and follows Jenkins and Watts),
I'd be happy to provide you with a copy of the program that was used to
generate the spectra.
Sincerely,
Ben Santer
David,
I can only suggest you contact Ben Santer who did the
analysis for Table 1. Ben is generally very busy - his
email is [email protected] .
Cheers
Phil
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Tom
please do. Actually I would be interested to know whether Malcolm mentioned these
results to Dave as he was in Krasnoyarsk a few months ago when I showed this
stuff. I will be over in New York in a few weeks to discuss with Ed the
possibility of putting in an NSF/NERC proposal to look at the tree biomass change
question. Also,the initial impetus to redo this stuff was as part of a NERC
project we have running in colllaboration with Ian Woodward - i which we are
inputting high resolution climate data to Dolly to assess the roll of such
variability on carbon uptake
cheers
Keith
From: [email protected]
To: "m.hulme" <[email protected]>
Subject: re: positives and negatives
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 15:09:29 CET
Cc: "timothy.mitchell" <[email protected]>
>It would indeed be interesting to poll all of our invitees using a more
>sophisticated
>questionnaire, but this is not what we are about. For example, if you
>disagree
>with the Statement I would be interested to know the grounds of your
>disagreement.
Mike,
Thanks.
I am always worried about this sort of things. Even if you have 1000
signitures, and appear to have a strong backup, how many of those asked did
not sign?
Also, I happen to be of the opinion that the US proposal for Kyoto is too
ambitious. But of course I am thinking of real policies, not of
negotiation-rhetoric.
Finally, I think that the text conveys the message that it is a scientific
defense for the EU position. There is not any. Even DG11 finds a hard to
defend (at least, in the draft version of their attempt -- I don't think the
final version has appeared yet). Whatever you think about long-term goals,
2010 is pretty soon. At the moment, no country has any experience with
serious emission reduction POLICY. Minus 15% is serious, particularly because
of the effort that will be spend on the monetary union and because the UK and
Germany are too optimistic on their baseline emissions. Rash action instead
careful thinking may well run serious, international climate policy deep into
the ground.
Cheers
Richard
Mike
> 1. Overheads: we charge EU projects 20% overheads and these are totally
> acceptable
> 2. Budget: I will need to redraft our budget. Please tell me estimated
> start data and for how long the project will run. I envisage our budget
> remaining in the bracket 60-70k ECU
I guess we are looking to April 1998 at the very earliest. I heard that
some SMT projects take up to 2 years to get going even after they've
been approved due to wrangles over the budget. We have 1 million ECU for
3 years....so some project budgets will have to be cut. Yours looks
fine.
> 3. Workplan: I am assuming the basic climate tasks remain pretty much as
> before, namely:
>
> a) 10' gridded monthly climate data for Europe for 1xxx xxxx xxxxlinked to a
weather
> generator that will yield daily data. Key variables: precip., tmin, tmax,
> vapour pressure, sunshine/radiation, wind, wet days, frost days.
> b) for the world a 0.5deg gridded dataset for 1xxx xxxx xxxxat monthly timesteps
Excellent!
> c) what was decided about very high resolution climate surfaces for 1-2
> regions?
> This was in the original proposal but got dropped I think. Adding this back
> to our work plan would involve extra time and hence resources. How
> important are
> these test 1km (?) resolution datasets?
> Can you confirm for me which forms I need to get completed? Do you
> have copies to send me or should I get them from here.
> I shall not be able to be with you in York on Friday, but I am here
> all this week if there are questions.
Richard
Dear Eleven,
I was very disturbed by your recent letter, and your attempt to get
others to endorse it. Not only do I disagree with the content of
this letter, but I also believe that you have severely distorted the
IPCC "view" when you say that "the latest IPCC assessment makes a
convincing economic case for immediate control of emissions." In contrast
to the one-sided opinion expressed in your letter, IPCC WGIII SAR and TP3
review the literature and the issues in a balanced way presenting
arguments in support of both "immediate control" and the spectrum of more
cost-effective options. It is not IPCC's role to make "convincing cases"
for any particular policy option; nor does it. However, most IPCC readers
would draw the conclusion that the balance of economic evidence favors the
emissions trajectories given in the WRE paper. This is contrary to your
statement.
Let me remind you of the science. The issue you address is one of the
timing of emissions reductions below BAU. Note that this is not the same
as the timing of action -- and note that your letter categorically
addresses the former rather than the latter issue. Emissions reduction
timing is epitomized by the differences between the Sxxx and WRExxx
pathways towards CO2 concentration stabilization. It has been clearly
demonstrated in the literature that the mitigation costs of following an
Sxxx pathway are up to five times the cost of following an equivalent
WRExxx pathway. It has also been shown that there is likely to be an
equal or greater cost differential for non-Annex I countries, and that the
economic burden in Annex I countries would fall disproportionately on
poorer people.
When scientists color the science with their own PERSONAL views or make
categorical statements without presenting the evidence for such
statements, they have a clear responsibility to state that that is what
they are doing. You have failed to do so. Indeed, what you are doing is,
in my view, a form of dishonesty more subtle but no less egregious than
the statements made by the greenhouse skeptics, Michaels, Singer et al. I
find this extremely disturbing.
Tom Wigley
<x-rich>Dear Colleagues,
I would like to confirm that we will hold the next SRES meeting on 7-8 February
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Lynn
Berkeley, CA 94720
U.S.A.
e-mail: [email protected]
The main purpose of the meeting is to review the work progress of the four
runs into four initial scenarios. Thus, this will be primarily a modelers'
storylines, since this work needs to proceed in order for us to meet our
original timetable and cannot be postponed until the next Lead Authors'
good to also take the opportunity of this meeting to review the so-called
notice and not all of you will be able to obtain the necessary approvals
stage to hold an informal meeting with the four modeling groups. I have
funds available for the four lead authors from developing countries:
Matthew Luhanga, Zhou Dadi, Henryk Gaj, and Emilio La Rovere. As noted
above, a more formal meeting of the complete writing team will be held
attend.
Please confirm your attendance for the February meeting with me as soon as
possible (this week if you can), so that we can reserve sufficient hotel
space in Berkeley.
Again, for those of you who are working on Zero Order Drafts, please
remember that this Thursday is the deadline for completion. I look forward to
receiving these.
Best Regards,
Naki
<center>Katalin Kuszko
Naki,
I think the modelling groups may also require some inputs (and insights)
for handling developing country specifications in the models. In the
past we have pointed out several lacunas - such as neglect of
traditional biomass, disequilibrium, informal economy, geopolitical
realities etc. These also influence technological assumptions and
constraints. In fact our scenarios are very well suited to handle some
of these aspects differently. The modellers may have to be advised to
handle these aspects suitably. This is vital since we aim to specify the
emissions regionally.
A more interesting issue concerning the discount rates for our scenarios
is that the different futures (scenarios) would have different
associated discount rates. The sustainable development type scenarios
(e.g. B1 scenario) may have lower discount rate than our A scenarios. If
we run all scenarios with same discount rate, this would be a
contradiction. I know there are no easy answers around this since we do
not want to confuse the users of scenarios later on with too many
different parameters. However it may be worth providing different
specifications for important parameters or caveats where we anticipate
contradictions.
P.R. Shukla
**************************************************************
P.R. Shukla, Professor
Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380015, India
Phone: xxx xxxx xxxx, Fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
Email: [email protected], http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~shukla
***************************************************************
Frank
I do not recall what Kyrdianov has worked on - sorry. However, Hantemirov has done
outstanding work putting together and as yet preliminarily analysing what wii no
doubt become a world famous sub fossil chronology in the Yamal area of northern
Siberia. Indeed I will feature this work in my presentation.
Frank , an important point requiring your instant help! Some time ago I got a
request to write something for a NERC(?) publication related to my talk in April.
Now I can't find it and desperately need to contact the guy about length and
deadine - which may have passed. Can you help? I know you coordinated with him.
Yes I know I'm a _anker!
Keith
At 10:12 AM 1/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Keith,
>
>I'm trying to draw up a short list for the 5 young scientists who will
>receive financial support from UCL. I need to balance them for theme and
>region and it seems that one of them should probably be a former USSR
>dendro-person. I've consulted Gene who points to Hantemirov and
>Kyrdianov as the two most worthy. Do you have any advice? Both abstracts
>look good and Gene thinks highly of each piece of work. seems better to
>get a second opinion from the dendro-world than to leave it open or try
>to resolve the question from a non-specialist perspective.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you,
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
>____________________________________________
>Frank Oldfield
>
>Executive Director
>PAGES IPO
>Barenplatz 2
>CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland
>
>e-mail: [email protected] *** NOTE CHANGE ***
>
>Phone: xxx xxxx xxxx; Fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
>http://www.pages.unibe.ch/pages.html
>
Dear Keith!
I contacted Hakan Grudd last week. He is also positive about a Ph.D. for me
in Stockholm.
I have tried to make a formulation of a project. Please, read it and let me
know what you think. Maybe the project is overlapping with that of Grudd or
maybe you have better ideas. It could also be that I have misunderstood
some points.
I have sent the project formulation to Schweingruber, Grudd and Kalen. I
send it to Schweingruber because I already contacted him last week (before
I got the message from you). He is also interested in the project and
anyway he will get involved if I am going to train in Birmensdorf.
Gerner Thomsen
Description of project
1. Background
Dendroclimatology can be defined as the use of tree rings to study and
reconstruct past and present climate (Kaennel & Schweingruber, 1995).
Global average surface temperatures have risen by 0.3-0.6
Hi everyone,
I need to have a firm number of attendees by the end of the day tomorrow
(Wednesday January 21st) in order to hold rooms at the hotel. At the end
of this e-mail I have listed the information that I currently have
regarding who is planning to attend, who is not planning to attend, and
who has not responded.
I will hold a room for each of the people listed below as attending
unless I hear otherwise from you.
If you are in the list of people who have not yet responded and you plan
to attend, please let me know ASAP.
If I have not heard from you by the end of the day tomorrow I will assume
that you will make your own arrangements for accommodations.
For those of you who want me to hold a room for you, I will send
information on how to make your reservations in a day or so.
Thanks,
Lynn
*************************************
Lynn Price
Energy Analysis Program
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, MS xxx xxxx xxxx
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
(5xxx xxxx xxxx
fax (5xxx xxxx xxxx
*************************************
Confirmed as attending:
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Zhou Dadi
Stuart Gaffin
Henryk Gaj
Ken Gregory
Arnulf Gruebler
Erik Haites
Tae-Yong Jung
Emilio Lebre La Rovere
Alan Manne
Tsuneyuki Morita
Richard Moss
Hugh Pitcher
Rich Richels
Rob Swart
H.J.M. de Vries
Ernst Worrell
Not attending:
Knut Alfsen
Dennis Anderson
Joergen Fenhann
Laurie Michaelis
Priyadarshi Shukla
Jim Skea
Mike,
(1) I tried the composite GHG plus UIUC SUL on Norm's machine, in just
the way you said. However, the results for the USA seem to be identical
to those using *only* UIUC GHG input. I'll try again.
(2) You are right in saying one shouldn't scale GHG patterns by
GHG+SUL dTs. However, to be strictly consistent one should never allow
GHG patterns to be used alone. So you are *not* being consistent if you
allow this---which you do. The point then is to minimize the extent of
the inconsistency.
I can see some logic in your method; I just think (strongly) that
it is wrong. At the very least, it will be confusing to the user.
If the user selects only GHG model patterns, then won't they wonder why
the global-mean temperature is inconsistent with MAGICC? To take an
extreme case, suppose the full dT is 2degC and the GHG-alone dT is 3degC.
Is it better to scale an approximate pattern (i.e., the GHG pattern) by
2degC or 3degC? In my view, GHG scaled by 2degC would be much closer to
GHG+SUL scaled by 2degC than GHG scaled by 3degC. Surely the real issue
(given that it is impossible to be entirely consistent in this case) is to
get a result that is as close to the 'right' result as possible. I feel
quite sure that scaling by column 6 is best on this basis---especially
given that the patterns are much more uncertain than the global-means. I
think this is absolutely beyond doubt.
The bottom line here is that consistency is impossible if one uses
only GHG patterns. Column 6 was included deliberately, and after some
thought (along the lines noted above).
(4) Thanks for explaining the UIUC 'other data' problem. I will ask
Michael whether he can provide full global fields for the other variables,
since it really would be valuable to include them. If he can give us
these data, could you add them to SCENGEN? (re this, see below)
(5) I appreciate your problems with Olga and Mike Salmon. As far as I
can see, incorporating the revised MAG.FOR code into MAGICC/SCENGEN
shouldn't be too difficult. I can, however, get hold of some money to pay
for some of Mike's time to do other work---perhaps $5000 or so. Can we
set something up? The contractual side would be easy---just a matter of
agreeing a brief statement of work, and having CRU send a bill. If this
is useful and possible, then can you check it out with Mike and Trevor?
Cheers,
Tom
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Mike Hulme wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Got your fax and email. Five responses:
>
> 1. UIUC SUL results *can* be combined with any GHG pattern (or
> combination). Simply click on the relevant GCMs in the GCMs menu. You can
> choose all 15 GHG patterns and also the UIUC SUL pattern simultaneously if
> you want. Not sure how you missed this one.
>
> 2. We do *not* allow GHG patterns to be scaled by GHG+SUL dTs from MAGICC
> (what you call 'global sulphate'); i.e., we never use column 6 in the
> *DRIVE files. We always follow the 'disaggregated sulphate' route by using
> columns 2, 3, 4 and 5. I still maintain it is not correct to scale GHG
> patterns by a global dT that results from GHG+SUL forcing. The way we have
> designed SCENGEN is so that the choice of what columns in *DRIVE to use is
> governed by what GCMs are selected in the GCMs menu. If only GHG patterns
> are chosen we use column 2. If only SUL patterns are chosen we use columns
> 3, 4 and 5 with the appropriate weightings applied (i.e., we have three
> UIUC SUL pattern files corresponding to the three SCENGEN regions,
> re-combined of course from Schlesinger's six original regions). If *both*
> GHG and SUL patterns are chosen then we combine the various patterns using
> columns 2, 3, 4 and 5. You will see that the global dT displayed in red on
> the main screen changes in keeping with these selections (i.e., GHG only,
> SUL only or GHG+SUL).
>
> If we allowed GHG patterns to be scaled by dTs from MAGICC that resulted
> from GHG and SUl forcing I believe that we break the consistency of our
> method. Column 6 is therefore redundant and serves only to check the
> summing of the other columns.
>
> 3. This parallels an earlier discussion about using HADCM2 SUL results in
> SCENGEN. Strictly, we should not use them since they are SO2 pattern
> specific. Allowing the user to scale HADCM2 SUL by a set of dTs resulting
> from *any* SO2 pattern is plainly wrong. A compromise would be to allow
> HADCM2 SUL to be scaled by the dT from the HADCM2 SUL simulation (i.e.,
> hard-wiring these dTs into SCENGEN and using only these if the user wants
> HADCM2 SUL). Of course, other GCM patterns should not then be added to
> this. There is another way of using HADCM2 SUL results more flexibly and
> that is by differencing HADCM2 GHG from HADCM2 SUL (2xxx xxxx xxxx),
> standardising the result according to the dTs from the three SCENGEN
> regions and then treating these standardised HADCM2 SUL only patterns as
> independent aerosol patterns to be used in SCENGEN. This would be my
> approach but again requires more time and effort.
>
> 4. We only include T and P from UIUC for the very good reason that only T
> and P contain complete global fields (at least from the ftp site data).
> The other variables exist only for land areas. Since the UIUC grid is 4
> (lat) by 5 deg and SCENGEN is 5 by 5 we would need to regrid (and the
> longitudes are displaced by 0.5 a box as well which complicates matters).
> Regridding land only grids onto a different land only grid is non-trivial
> (possible, but would take some working at). For example, UIUC have no
> Iceland or Caribbean islands so what do we give to SCENGEN for these boxes?
> We have to tell SCENGEN something since we add other GCMs together.
> Faking up data here is very time-consuming. If UIUC have other fields
> apart from T and P for a full global grid but just not put them on the web
> site then fine, the problem is quite straightfoward. If not, then we have
> a messy problem on our hands.
>
> 5. Points about revised MAGICC code noted and we will have a look at the
> new code when it is here. Please also note that apart from Olga not being
> paid by me now, neither is Mike Salmon. Indeed, Mike's contract is rather
> uncertain again. But I hope I can pursuade him (and Trevor) to keep pace
> with MAGICC changes for all our sakes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> At 19:23 06/02/xxx xxxx xxxx, you wrote:
> >Dear Mike,
> >
> >Some rather urgent SCENGEN issues have arisen from my meeting with Norm
> >Rosenberg, Hugh Pitcher et al. at Battelle. While at Battelle, I had my
> >first chance to look at the new SCENGEN, since I have not had time to try
> >to get it working under NT. (I haven't had time to try your new batch
> >file yet.)
> >
> >The first thing is that you seem to have constrained things so that
> >Schlesinger's sulphate results can only be added to *his* ghg results.
> >This defeats the purpose of the method. The sulphate patterns,
> >appropriately scaled, can be added to *any* (or any combination) of ghg
> >(i.e., CO2 alone) results. I am at a loss to understand why you did this,
> >because it seems to me that the coding should be easier for the more
> >general case. The way it should work is this:
> >
> >First, the user selects the MAGICC output; low, mid, high or user climate
> >output. This determines which file to use to get the normalized pattern
> >weights, LODRIVE, MIDDRIVE, HIDRIVE OR USRDRIVE.
> >
> >The user must then select whether to use global sulphate or disaggregated
> >sulphate. This determines whether to use the last column only in *DRIVE
> >(labeled SUM) to weight the ghg (or composite ghg) pattern (global
> >sulphate case); or to use the second, third, fourth and fifth columns of
> >*DRIVE (labeled GHG, ESO21, ESO22, ESO23) to weight, respectively, the ghg
> >(or composite ghg), region-1 sulphate, region-2 sulphate and region-2
> >sulphate patterns---and then sum these weighted patterns.
> >
> >What you seem to be doing now is to only allow SCENGEN to use
> >Schlesinger's ghg pattern for weighting with the GHG column. It should be
> >trivial to fix this. The ghg (or composite ghg) pattern should be
> >calculated no matter whether the user selects the global or disaggregated
> >sulphate case. You may have switched this calculation off for the
> >disaggregated case---but you *shouldn't*. As I noted above, the coding
> >should be easier for the proper working of the model.
> >
> >You may recall that I said earlier that I think there is still a glitch in
> >the sulphate pattern weights. On looking at the *DRIVE outputs again I
> >still think this is a problem. Have a look yourself and see whether you
> >think the numbers look reasonable or not. Ill check this out further over
> >the weekend.
> >
> >The second thing that came up in the Battelle meeting was the fact that
> >the only data sets for Schlesinger's output seem to be temperature and
> >precipitation. Battelle wants to do some sulphate cases (driving crop and
> >hydrology models with SCENGEN output), and they need the other variables.
> >They are working to a tight deadline, so getting these data into SCENGEN
> >is much higher priority that plugging HadCM2 SUL into SCENGEN. This is
> >why I am going to spend some time (at last!) checking out the pattern
> >weights a.s.a.p. I hope you can help out with these things. The first
> >should be easy---but I realize the second could be both tedious and
> >somewhat time consuming. There is clearly a lot of scope for using
> >SCENGEN to define the pattern consequences of sulphate aerosol forcing;
> >both to look at the implications of different SO2 emissions scenarios and
> >to investigate uncertainties. We can't do this until I've fixed the
> >MAGICC end to get the weights working properly. It is something we could
> >spend some time on (i.e., writing something up for publication) when I'm
> >in CRU in the summer (and/or earlier).
> >
> >Thanks for your help on this. The people at Battelle are very impressed
> >by SCENGEN--as am I.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >
> > **********************************************************
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> > *Senior Scientist *
> > *National Center for Atmospheric Research *
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> > *Phone: xxx xxxx xxxx *
> > *Fax: xxx xxxx xxxx *
> > *E-mail: [email protected] *
> > **********************************************************
> >
> >
>
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached the minutes of the SRES informal modelers' meeting,
7-8 February 1998 in Berkeley, California. I would like to thank those who
participated in the meeting and Lynn Price in particular, both for the
excellent organization of the meeting and for drafting the minutes. Please
note the deadlines detailed in our
work plan; for those of you completing the next two rounds on model runs
and storylines, this will be especially important. Additional submissions
to the SRES scenario database would be also greatly appreciated. Finally,
if anyone would like to receive a hard copy of the materials we discussed
in Berkeley, please contact Anne Johnson at [email protected]. (The same
material was sent to you by e-mail on January 30).
Naki
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Dear Mike,
What is the current state of play regarding definition of
improved sulphur emission scenarios? I have the 'zero-order
draft' by Arnulf Grubler that you sent me at the beginning of
November, as well as a shorter note by Hugh Pitcher. Have there
been more developments since then?
As you can probably guess, this enquiry results from Geoff
Jenkins's visit to Brussels (?) a few days ago. Geoff is now
keen that we should use better emission scenarios than IS92a
and is pressing me for action, even if this means using an
interim scenario that has not yet been agreed by IPCC.
Best regards,
David
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know that the next IPCC-SRES Full Authors meeting
will be held the week of 27 April 1998 (instead the week of 6 April) in
Washington, D.C. Bob Watson of
the IPCC will attend. The exact dates during that week are not yet fixed,
but I expect that we will have a full authors meeting for two days,
preceded by a two-day modelers meeting. Please let me know soon--today if
possible--whether you will be available during this week; it is critical
that we finalize the dates early so there will be sufficient time to ensure
funding for our colleagues from developing countries who need IPCC support.
Best regards,
Naki
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for your prompt response to my recent e-mail message regarding
the next IPCC SRES meeting. I am glad to hear that so many of you will be
able to attend, since this will be a very important discussion. The plan is
to hold the modelers' meeting on April 27 and 28, followed by the full
authors' meeting on April 29 and 30.
Best regards,
Naki
Dear Colleagues:
Naki has asked me to send you the attached IPCC Zero Order Draft by Dennis
Anderson on the influence of social and economic policies on future carbon
emissions. It is an updated version of the ZOD presented at the Berkeley
SRES meeting. The attachment is missing the last three charts, but these
will be available in time for the Washington, D.C. meeting. If you have
any comments, please send them directly to Dennis Anderson:
I have attached the ZOD in both rich text and MS Word formats.
Regards,
Anne Johnson
Anne JOHNSON
IIASA
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone : xxx xxxx xxxx
Fax : xxx xxxx xxxx
Dear Keith,
Rashit Hantemirov
Dear Colleagues:
Regards,
Anne Johnson
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Zero Order Draft
IS99
Storylines and Scenarios
February, 1998
Ged Davis et al
*********************************
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Scenarios - overview
7. Scenario comparisons
8. Conclusions
1. Introduction
2. Scenarios - overview
Terminology
Storylines, Scenarios and Scenario Families
Scenario family: one or more scenarios which have the same demographic,
politico-societal, economic and technological storyline.
Scenario Classification
Our approach has been to develop a set of four "scenario families". The
storylines of each of these scenario families describes a demographic,
politico-economic, societal and technological future. Within each family
one or more scenarios explore global energy industry and other developments
and their implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and other pollutants.
These are a starting point for climate impact modelling.
The scenarios we have built explore two main questions for the 21st
century, neither of which we know the answer to:
- Can adequate governance -- institutions and agreements -- be put in place
to manage global problems?
- Will society's values focus more on enhancing material wealth or be more
broadly balanced, incorporating environmental health and social well-being.
The way we answer these questions leads to four families of scenarios:
- Golden Economic Age (A1): a century of expanded economic prosperity with
the emergence of global governance
- Sustainable Development (B1): in which global agreements and
institutions, underpinned by a value shift, encourages the integration of
ecological and economic goals
- Divided World (A2): difficulty in resolving global issues leads to a
world of autarkic regions
- Regional Stewardship (B2): in the face of weak global governance there is
a focus on managing regional/local ecological and equity
This scenario family entitled "Golden Economic Age", describes rapid and
successful economic development. The primary drivers for economic growth
and development "catch up" are the strong human desire for prosperity, high
human capital (education), innovation, technology diffusion, and free trade.
The logic of successful development assumes smooth growth with no major
political discontinuities or catastrophic events. The scenario family's
development model is based on the most successful historical examples of
economic growth, i.e., on the development path of the now affluent OECD
economies. Historical analogies of successful economic "catching up" can
be found in the Scandinavian countries, Austria, Japan, and South Korea.
"Intangible" assets (human capital, stable political climate) take
precedence over "tangible" assets (capital, resource, and technology
availability) in providing the conditions for a take-off into accelerated
rates of development. Once these conditions are met, free trade enables
each region to access knowledge, technology, and capital to best deploy its
respective comparative economic and human resource advantages.
Institutional frameworks are able to successfully sustain economic growth
and also to handle the inevitable volatility that rapid economic growth
entails.
The economic development focus explains its central metric: the degree of
economic development as reflected in per capita income levels (GDP at
market exchange rates as well as at purchasing power parity rates). The
principal driver is the desire for prosperity, all major driving forces are
closely linked to prosperity levels, with actual causality links going in
both directions. For example, demographic variables co-evolve with
prosperity: mortality declines (i.e. life expectancy increases) as a
function of higher incomes (better diets and affordable medical treatment).
In turn, changes in the social values underlying the fertility transition
also pave the way for greater access to education, modernisation of
economic structures, and market orientation. These are key for innovating
and diffusing the best practice technologies underlying the high
productivity, and hence economic growth, of the scenario.
3.12 Equity
Equity issues are not a major concern in the world, but is rather a
by-product of the high rates of economic development. Existing per capita
income gaps between regions close up in a similar way as between Western
Europe and Japan compared to the US in the 20th century. Disparities
continue to persist between regions, but more so within particular regions.
Nevertheless, the high economic growth rates require a certain degree of
income distribution. Extreme income disparities are found to be negative
influencing factors for economic growth. Additionally, fair income
distribution only assures the large consumer markets and the social
cohesion and stability required for the realisation of high economic growth.
3.2 Scenarios
The core bifurcation (with respect to GHG emissions) of the scenario family
unfolds around alternative paths of technology development in the
agriculture and energy sectors. In the energy sector, the central question
is how to manage the transition away from the current reliance on
conventional oil and gas. In the agricultural sector, the key issue
concerns land productivity.
Alternative technology bifurcations lead to a number of scenarios embedded
and consistent within the overall theme of "prosperity via high
techologies". All scenarios provide the high quantities of clean and
convenient energy forms and diverse, high quality food demanded in an
affluent world. Because technological change is cumulative, it can go in
alternative, mutually exclusive directions, i.e., changes become "path
dependent". Alternative directions unfold around the interrelated cluster
of variables of resource availability and conversion technologies in both
energy and agriculture. For instance, new technologies may enable humanity
to tap either the vast quantities of fossil resources existing in the form
of coal, unconventional oil, and gas with technologies that are both highly
economic, efficient, and clean in terms of traditional pollutants, such as
particulates or sulphur. Alternatively, technological change could unfold
favouring non-fossil technologies and resources, such as nuclear and
renewables.
A similar bifurcation unfolds in the agricultural sector. In one
sub-scenario, only incremental improvements are achieved in farming
practices and land productivity. This is combined with a gradual global
diffusion of meat-based diets. Both of these trends are land- (and
deforestation-) intensive. Alternatively, global agriculture could move in
the direction of genetically engineered, high productivity crops and
"sea-farming," combined with a quality- and health-oriented diet based on
fish and vegetables, both of which are relatively less land intensive. As
a result, GHG emissions range widely even for otherwise similar scenario
characteristics.
3.21 Energy Resources/Technology
Resource availability and technology are tightly interrelated. The "Golden
Economic Age" of high productivity growth results from substantial
technological innovation. Both contribute to economic growth, expansion of
accessible resources, and improved efficiency in resource use. Factor
productivity improvements occur across the board for agricultural land,
materials, and energy. Improvement rates largely follow long-term
historical trends and are entirely technology- and income- driven. Energy
intensity (total commercial and traditional primary energy use per unit of
GDP) improves at an aggregate global rate of 1.5 percent per year.
Improvement rates vary across regions as a function of distance from the
productivity frontier and the turnover rates of capital stock. Ceteris
paribus, improvement rates are higher in regions with currently lower
efficiency and greater than average GDP growth. This assumes no particular
policy intervention or additional price regulation apart from the ones
consistent with a free market environment (i.e. price subsidies are
removed, and full costing principles are established).
Per capita final energy use gradually converges as income gaps close.
Final energy use per capita in non-Annex-I countries would reach
approximately 85 GJ (2 tons of oil equivalent) by 2050 and approximately
125 GJ (3 toe) by 2100, i.e., about the current average of OECD countries
outside North America. Despite improvements in productivity and
efficiency, the high income levels lead to resource use close to the upper
bounds of the scenarios available in the literature. For instance, global
final energy use would increase to approximately 1000 EJ by 2100.
Scenario
Dominant
Oil/Gas Resource
Technology Improvements
Fuel Availability Coal Oil/Gas Non-fossil
A1R Non-fossil Medium (<50 ZJ ) Low Medium High
A1G Oil/Gas High (>75 ZJ) Low High Low
A1C Coal Low (<35 ZJ) High Low Low
*
Depending on the assumed availability of oil and gas, (low/medium/high) and
corresponding improvements in production and conversion technologies for
coal, oil/gas, and non-fossil technologies, different energy systems
structures unfold. For instance, in the dynamic technology cases, liquid
fuels from coal or unconventional oil/gas resources would become available
at less than $30 /barrel, with costs falling further by about one percent
per year with exploitation of learning curve effects. Non-fossil
electricity (photovoltaics, new nuclear) would become available at costs of
less than 10 mills/kWh ($.01/kWh) and continue to improve further as a
result of learning curve effects. The basic premise of the "dynamic
technology" scenarios is that energy services could be delivered at
long-run costs not higher than today, but with technologies having
radically different characteristics, including environmental. In the event
that such technology dynamics do not materialise, energy costs and prices
would be significantly higher than suggested above -- illustrative model
runs suggest energy demand would be up to 20 percent lower for a fossil
scenario without significant cost improvements .
3.22 Agriculture
In the agricultural sector, two contrasting scenarios of land productivity
could unfold, depending on the nature of advances in agricultural
technologies. However, CO2 emissions from land use changes could range
from 0.5 (low) to 1.5 (high) GtC by 2030 and from -1 to -2 (low) to zero
(high) GtC emissions by 2100. In the latter case tropical forests
essentially become depleted as a result of land-use conversions for
agriculture and biomass fuel plantations. In the former case, land
productivity gains are so substantial that ploughing of marginal
agricultural land is no longer economically feasible and is abandoned,
following recent trends in the OECD. The resulting expansion of forest
cover leads to a net sequestration of atmospheric CO2.
4.13 Equity
In this world there is a preparedness to address issues of social and
political equity. The increases in equity, reflect a shift in values
which, with widespread education, leads to greater opportunity for all.
New social inventions, such as the Grameen Bank's micro-credit schemes, are
a significant contributor to an increase in institutional effectiveness and
equity improvement.
4.2 Scenarios
In a retreat from the globalising trends of the previous century, the world
"consolidates" into a series of roughly continental economic regions.
Regions pursue different economic strategies based on the resources and
options available to them. Trade within economic regions increases, while
trade between regions is controlled by tariff and non-tariff barriers to
support the region's economic strategy. High income regions restrict
immigration and impose selective controls on technology transfer to
maintain high incomes for their residents.
High income regions encourage higher levels of education to increase the
productivity of their labour force. They impose restrictions on immigrants,
except skilled immigrants, to keep per capita incomes high. They also try
to impose selective restrictions on technology transfer to maintain the
productivity of their labour force.
Low income regions are only able to increase per capita incomes slowly.
They do not have the resources to invest in educating the labour force or
in research and development. Investment from other regions is constrained.
Thus exports are primarily products manufactured with low cost labour and
some natural resource-intensive products. Population growth is high
relative to high income regions. Income inequality becomes more pronounced
within low income regions and increases between regions.
5.2 Scenarios
Divided World is explored through a single scenario.
5.21 Resource Availability
Regions try to use their resource endowment for their economic advantage.
Regions with abundant energy and mineral resources use those resources
domestically and to produce exports (surplus to expected long-term needs).
Regions poor in energy and mineral resources will minimise their dependence
on these resources. High-income, resource-poor regions will develop as
service-based, dematerialised economies, while low-income, resource-poor
regions are forced to limit their consumption of resources.
6.11 Population
Both local governance and environmental concerns limit population growth.
The world largely supports efforts to reduce unwanted births both as a
social service but also because there is an implicit belief that even
increasing populations have severe environmental consequences. Education
and welfare programs for the young and illiterate are widely pursued.
6.13 Governance
Governance is weak globally but strong nationally and regionally.
Deliberate policies to limit trade for environmental and social reasons
hinder the transfer of technologies. However pollution trading concepts
catch on as a way of driving down the costs of pollution control.
International alliances occur based on particular national circumstances,
such as in the development of biomass technologies. This fragmentation
gives rise to pockets of environmental and social justice activists.
Environmental policies vary widely across regions, for example in
acceptable sulphur emission levels. NGO and public interest groups are
strong, influential and busy.
6.14 Equity
While strong redistribution policies are enacted within regions to reduce
income disparity, income differences between regions persist globally
throughout the century and even increases in absolute terms, although the
relative inequity decreases. The mechanism by which global equity
increases relates in part to population dynamics: as fertility rates
decline in developing countries, the decrease in youth dependency ratios
leads to an increase in savings rate and strengthened economic growth
during the first half of the century. In the developed regions, by
contrast, ageing becomes an increasing drag on economic growth in helping
to converge global incomes, concerns about the persistence of income
inequality world-wide are swamped by the local concerns and conscious
policies to limit international trade.
6.2 Scenarios
The global scenario for 2100 is also summarised in the form of a snowflake
diagram. All scenario quantifications are tentative and subject to revisions.
[Figure: "Snowflake" for B2 scenario]
8. Conclusions
[To be written]
Anne JOHNSON
IIASA
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone : xxx xxxx xxxx
Fax : xxx xxxx xxxx
Dear Keith
Yesterdy we had the final meeting to a natonal research program climat and
natural catastrophies. Local authorites and Grassel, WMO summarised the
major open questions on which Switzerland could work:
Nowbody said anything about growth but few were aware of the local validity
of the studies made in Switzerland.
Our actual studies fit perfectly to this topics. For the future (discussion
in Kopenhagen) I see the following condensation points:
Sincerely Fritz
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the large number of participants at the Lead Authors meeting, the
location has been changed from IPCC WG II TSU offices to the World Bank,
H Building, 600 19th Street, N.W.
The closest metro stop to this building is Farragut West on the orange and
blue lines. Take the 18th Street exit from the metro and go one block to
19th Street and then two blocks over to G Street. You will need a badge to
get
into the meeting, but someone will be there to help you with this. In any
case, it may be a good idea to come a bit early on the first day to get
checked in. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Best regards,
Anne Johnson
Anne JOHNSON
IIASA
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone : xxx xxxx xxxx
Fax : xxx xxxx xxxx
Find below guidelines on how to present the IS99 storylines and scenarios. Could
you the nominated authors send me your first drafts as soon as possible.
In writing up your contribution could you cover the following areas, ideally
structured as follows:
3. Scenarios, include reasons for branches: this section should state clearly the
reasons behind selection of scenarios and review the key highlights of the
scenario quantification
* energy resources/technology, include resource availability
* land use and agriculture
* scenario quantification, include snowflake
* CO2 emissions
Regards,
Ged Davis SI-PXG Tel: 0xxx xxxx xxxxFax: 0xxx xxxx xxxx
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Scenario Processes and Applications
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>To: Keith Briffa <[email protected]>
>From: Mike Baillie <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: report- edit this and send an email
>
>Keith, here are some thoughts on belfast work. Come back to me on this.
>Cheers Mike
>
>10K Belfast Report.
>
>All the remaining long chronology (prehistoric) oak data from Ireland,
>England, north and south Germany (including the major Hohenhein holdings
>(2827 tree series spanning 8239 BC to 841 AD) and the Netherlands (667
>series spanning 6025 BC with gaps to 1721 AD) has now been centralised and
>screened.
>Work has been progressing on calculating running statistics on and between
>these data sets and their constituent ring patterns. Additional attention
>has been paid to attempting to understand/interpret the data in various
>ways. During the year, three principal work packages have been explored
>with respect to assessing the oak data.
>
>work package i)
>signatures
>With such a wide grid of chronologies it is possible to review the
>occurrence of years of common growth trend. Signatures are normally
>defined as those years in which 80% or more of all trees in a 'region'
>exhibit the same trend towards wider or narrower growth. All sub-regional
>and overall European signatures have been isolated and the intention is to
>re-do the 1985 analysis of Kelly et al. comparing rainfall, temperature and
>drought index data with the ocurrence of widespread signatures.
>
>work package ii)
>Stepped windows of correlation
>With the availability of the raw data from each laboratory all regional
>chronologies for Ireland, Britain, North Germany and South Germany have
>been reconstructed by standard means (initially fitting a 30-year spline to
>each individual tree-ring pattern). Using these standardised chronologies,
>stepped windows of correlation have been run comparing all regions across
>time back to 5000 BC. Notable changes are observed indicating periods of
>consistent, north-European-wide similarity and dis-similarity. The
>availability of the raw data then allows interrogation of anomalies. For
>example, there is a notable fall-off in correlation between the
>standardised Irish and English chronologies at AD 775 to 825. In the past
>this would have been attributed to aspects such as a) poor replication or
>b) narrow versus wide rings. In this case examination of these aspects
>showed that neither was the cause of the poor correlation; it appears that
>English and Irish trees were responding in completely opposite manner
>during this period. Such findings have important implications for both
>identifying and interrogating such episodes throughout the record.
>
>work package iii)
>Widest and narrowest rings.
>It had always been assumed that the widest (or narrowest) ring in any tree,
>in any year, would be idiosyncratic. This assumption produced the
>expectation that the information from such extremes would be largely
>meaningless. With the availability of the raw data it is now possible to
>create new chronologies of the 1st narrowest, and or the 2nd/3rd narrowest,
>the widest, etc, rings in each year, for each region, or for the entire
>regional dataset. The result of isolating these extremes turns out to be
>surprising in that plots of the extremes show remarkable coherence. Figure
>Z shows a section of the Irish chronology constructed from the widest (and
>narrowest) raw ring widths (the narrowest values being converted to indices
>for clarity). This presentation shows the 'maximum envelope of oak growth'
>year by year through time. This is a remarkable way to demonstrate periods
>when there are no narrow rings in any trees and others where there are no
>wide rings in any trees. Extreme events such as that in AD 540 can be seen
>as an overall downturn in the ring width envelope, not just a reduction in
>mean ring width.
>
>Extreme events.
>Work has continued documenting extreme events in the European oak, and
>other, records, partly as a preliminary to the detailed comparison between
>the oak and Fennoscandian and Finnish pine chronologies. Some of the
>events appear to be of a sufficiently global character that their effects
>should be apparent in the more temperature sensitive northern pine
>chronologies. Recently preliminary work has documented declines in the
>seventeenth century and twelfth century BC and in the later fifth century
>BC. Notable declines in the 1620s and 1120s in Foxtail pine chronologies
>from the Sierra Nevada (Scuderi 1993; Caprio and Baisan 1991) suggest
>reduced temperatures around the time of spaced events in the floating
>Fennoscandian record. With several exactly-spaced events available over
>several millennia it should be possible to link the major oak and pine
>holdings, with the additional possibility of using dated English and Irish
>sub-fossil pine chronologies to confirm linkages.
>Refs
>Caprio, A.C. and Baisan, C.H. 1992. Multi-millennial tree-ring chronologies
>from foxtail pine in the southern Sierras of California. Abstract in
>Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 73, 133.
>
>Scuderi, L.A. 1993, A 2000-Year Tree-Ring Record of Annual Temperatures in
>the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Science 259, 1433-6
>
>
>Related applications:
>
>Interhemispheric Radiocarbon Calibration
>In addition collaboration has continued on a range of topics including
>interhemispheric radiocarbon calibration. Oak samples from Ireland and
>exactly contemporaneous samples of cedar from New Zealand have been measued
>in radiocarbon laboratories in Belfast and Waikato (samples from each
>hemisphere being dated in both laboratories). This work is showing
>interesting hemispheric changes through time with implications for carbon
>cycle modellers (related paper accepted for publication).
>
>Global tree-ring responses to environmental change.
>As part of our network of collaborators, it is possible to have access to
>tree-ring patterns and related temperature reconstructions from a wide grid
>of chronologies outside Europe. An example of the power of such grids is
>provided by the observed changes during the fourteenth century AD. Here
>chronologies from the EU oak group have been combined with those from Ed
>Cook (Tasmanian Huon pine); Keith Briffa (Fennoscandian and Polar Urals
>pine); Peter Kuniholm (Aegean oak and pine) and Xiong Limin (New Zealand
>cedar). When permed (random groups of five from seven chronologies) to
>show common responses, the overall pattern exhibits reduced growth in the
>1340s, the decade of the arrival of the Black Death in Europe, see Figure.
>Such a clear environmental context for the plague has never been available
>before.
>
>Comparisons with other proxy data.
>The strict annual character of tree-ring data is only truly comparable with
>precisely dated human records. For the early fourteenth century
>surprisingly complete records exist from England for crop yields and
>prices. In an attempt to compare two different but parallel proxy records,
>namely those for tree growth and for crop prices, collaboration with
>economic historians (Prof. Bruce Campbell Econ. and Soc. Hist. QUB) has
>been initiated. Preliminary plots of robust, screened European master
>chronologies against grain prices reveals surprising levels of common trend.
>
>Innundated trees
>As part of an effort to understand physiological response of oak to
>waterlogging, 21 oaks were sampled at garryland Wood, County Galway. These
>trees grow in a limestone area which is flooded in some winters to depths
>of 10s of metres, for durations up to months. Some of the trees exhibit
>scar damage almost certainly from bark burst during submersion. Scars
>appear to to coincide with winters of higher than average rainfall. The
>fact that the trees are not submerged during the growing season means that
>they do not show the extreme dieback and micro-rings associated with trees
>left standing in permanent water, such as examples from beside Loch Lomond,
>Scotland.
>
>Publications with Grant number
>
>Baillie, M.G.L. 1996 Chronology of the Bronze Age 2354 BC to 401 BC. Acta
>Archaeologica 67, xxx xxxx xxxx
>
>Baillie, M.G.L. 1998 Evidence for climatic deterioration in the 12th and
>17th centuries BC. in H
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Something far more interesting
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:03:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Cc: [email protected]
Dear Phil,
In short, I like the idea. INclude me in, and let me know what you
need from me (cv, etc.).
cheers,
mike
____________________________________________________________________
Michael E. Mann
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences
Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
____________________________________________________________________
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxx FAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Scenarios issues
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:00 +0000 (GMT)
Dear colleagues,
I will like to post here some correspondence which is clearly relevant for this
"scenarios discussion group" regarding some issues related to the use of the new
emission scenarios, simple models, etc. Please post any comments on these issues
or any other issue that you may want to raise to the following address
"[email protected]".
I have added the following experts to the list posted in my first Email:
P Wagner
R Watson
J Edmonds
S Smith
G Marland
Many thanks.
Maria Noguer
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Issues raised by J Mitchell:
3. What criteria are to be set for the simpler models used for global mean
projections?
*************************************
Issue raised by Tom Wigley and reponses:
Mike Hulme has told me something that is quite alarming about the
soon-to-be-released 'IPCC' CO2 emissions scenarios. If this is correct,
you/IPCC should try to remedy it as a matter of some urgency. He said
that the new 'IPCC' CO2 emissions scenarios will still begin in 1990 and
will not use observed (Marland) emissions for the 1990s.
You may either not realize, or not remember, that during the preparation
of the SAR and (especially) TPs 2 and 4, IPCC was frequently criticized
for using out-of-date emissions data that were manifestly wrong during the
1990s. It would be extremely embarrassing to be subject to the same
criticism with the TAR. Indeed, since the criticism is a justifiable one,
it would be inexcusable not to have responded to it.
How can you get around this problem? Ideally, the energy-economics models
need to be revised to begin in or around 2000 instead of 1990. Indeed, in
talking to Rich Richels about this issue, as well as echoing my concern,
he noted that his model (MERGE) is currently being updated in just this
way. He also pointed out that beginning an energy-economics model run in
1990 leads to considerable 'flexibility' in 2000 emissions; when, in fact,
the 2000 emissions will already be fixed and known by the time the TAR
comes out.
It is probably impossible to make this ideal type of 'fix', but a 'fix'
can still be made. What you could do is just what I have done in the above
two papers. This is a simple procedure that CAN be used since it is in the
published literature. All I did was use observed emissions to 1996 (as far
as data were available), linearly extrapolate these to 2000 (under the
assumption that this was a better projection than the corresponding IS92a
projection), and then use IS92a CHANGES from 2000. You may be able to
improve on the second step, but this is unimportant. The crucial thing is
to get the beginning years of the record to match observed emissions as
far as such data are available.
The above, by the way, does not have to be applied to emissions from
land-use change because of the way we deal with initialization with the
carbon cycle models. We do not use historical land-use- change emissions.
Best wishes,
Tom
=======================================================
>From Robert Watson on July 13:
Tom: I appreciate you bringing this critical issue to the fore - you are
absolutely right that we must not look naive. I assume that Naki and Jon
et al. Will deal with this while I an on vacation for the next four days.
Bob
=========================================================
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:18:09 +0000
From: David Schimel <[email protected]>
To: Tom Wigley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: IPCC CO2 Emissions Scenarios
Tom,
There was also general mild surprise at the degree of non GCM-community
interest in following Kyoto and stabilization rather than 1% per year and
similar reactions to the fact that 1% year doubles the current rate of
change.
But the wind is shifting
DS
========================================================
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:46:xxx xxxx xxxx
From: Atul Jain <[email protected]> To: Tom Wigley
<[email protected]>
Cc: Sir John Houghton <[email protected]>,
Patricia WAGNER <[email protected]>,
Hugh Pitcher <[email protected]>,
Jae Edmonds <[email protected]>,
Mike Hulme <[email protected]>,
Fortunat Joos <[email protected]>,
Richard Richels <[email protected]>,
Dave Schimel <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Dear Tom,
I got the same impression from Hugh's talk during the last week Community
Meeting on IA, which was sponsored by NSF. It does not matter so much
whether the starting point for the scenario calculations is 1990 or 2000.
The main concern is that the emission scenarios should reflect the recent
changes in fossil emissions, which show a decreasing trend from 1990 to
1995 in Annex B emissions. Using projected emissions that are incorrect,
rather than updating them with observed emissions, is clearly not
acceptable.
I agree with you that the effects of these emissions on CO2 concentration
is minor. However, recent observed emissions will have a major impact on
estimates of the cost of CO2 abatement, which depend mainly on cumulative
emissions rather than on concentration. It is important, especially in
light of Kyoto commitments, not to produce inaccurate emission pathways
that overestimate emissions from 1xxx xxxx xxxx, since they may be used as
baselines for producing cost estimates.
Cheers! Atul
=========================================================
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:19:xxx xxxx xxxx
From: "Pitcher, Hugh M" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>,
Tom Wigley <[email protected]>
Cc: Sir John Houghton <[email protected]>,
Patricia WAGNER <[email protected]>,
Hugh Pitcher <[email protected]>,
Robert Watson <[email protected]>,
Jae Edmonds <[email protected]>,
Mike Hulme <[email protected]>,
Fortunat Joos <[email protected]>,
Richard Richels <[email protected]>,
Dave Schimel <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Dear Tom et al
In setting up the MiniCAM to do the scenario work for the SRES, we tuned
the 2005 energy and hence emissions numbers to reproduce the latest IEA
forecast, which explicitly incorporates the slowdown in 1990 to 1995. The
only problem here is that informal feedback from within Russia(Igor
Bashmakov) suggests the IEA data significantly overstate the reduction in
energy use. Our scenarios all go through the short term forecast for 2005
and then diverge onto alternative paths.
cheers, hugh
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:27:xxx xxxx xxxx(MDT)
From: Tom Wigley <[email protected]>
To: "Pitcher, Hugh M" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>,
Sir John Houghton <[email protected]>,
Patricia WAGNER <[email protected]>, Hugh Pitcher <[email protected]>,
Robert Watson <[email protected]>, Jae Edmonds <[email protected]>,
Mike Hulme <[email protected]>, Fortunat Joos <[email protected]>,
Richard Richels <[email protected]>,
Dave Schimel <[email protected]>, Gregg Marland <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: RE: IPCC CO2 Emissions Scenarios
Dear all,
(I am curious to know what this 2005 value is, and how close it is to what
I used in my Kyoto papers.)
Hugh also suggests the 'IPCC' 2005 value may be open to improvement, but I
presume it is too late to do this now. So ... what should be done? The
obvious solution would be to use Gregg Marland's 'observed' values as far
as they go, and then linearly interpolate from his latest year to 2005.
When I did my work, I had Gregg's values to 1995, and was able to make a
good guess from what he told me about what the 1996 value would be. By
now, 1996 should be available, and a good estimate may be possible for
1997. If so, then the linear interpolation would go over 1997 to 2005.
Do you all agree with this strategy? ... or does someone have a better
idea??
I'm copying this to Gregg to see what more recent data he can provide.
Cheers,
Tom
----------
Dear Colleagues,
Zhou Dadi has been kind enough to organize the next SRES Lead Authors
meeting in Beijing, China, to be held on 7-9 October, 1998. Dadi will
provide us with more detailed information on meeting logistics in the near
future, and I will send out a meeting agenda as we get closer to the
meeting date. Basically, there are four items that need to be discussed at
the meeting: 1) SRES progress to date; 2) the open process; 3) scenario
revisions and additional work; and 4) planning the final report.
Please mark you calendars for this date and RSVP to both Zhou Dadi
([email protected]) and Anne Johnson ([email protected]) as soon
as possible I will be out of the office xxx xxxx xxxxSeptember and will not be
able to receive messages during this time.
Naki
Dear Colleagues,
Appended is my last e-mail concerning this meeting in case you did not
receive a copy. In the attachment to this e-mail you will find two
letters. One is from IPCC outlining the possible role of scenarios in IPCC
assessment (Microsoft Photo Editor file). It is important for our work as
it indicates possible uses of new IPCC emissions scenarios. One of the
agenda items at the meeting will indeed be to discuss which of our marker
scenarios we recommend be used in the interim period before our scenarios
are approved by IPCC in early 2000. The other letter is also from IPCC
announcing the SRES web-site (PowerPoint file). The web-site includes most
of the scenario variants we have developed to date. Please circulate this
second letter as widely as you can because we need as much feedback from
the wider community of possible users as we can obtain.
Please let us know as soon as possible whether you are planing to attend.
Regards, Naki
Venue:
National Meteorological Administration (No. 46 Baishiqiao Road, Haidian
District, Beijing).
Accommodation:
Olympic Hotel (No. 48 Baishiqiao Road, Haidian District, Beijing,
Tel: xxx xxxx xxxx); discounted Price: US$65+15% service costs.
Meeting Announcement:
Dear Colleagues,
Zhou Dadi has been kind enough to organize the next SRES Lead Authors
meeting in Beijing, China, to be held on 7-9 October, 1998. Dadi will
provide us with more detailed information on meeting logistics in the near
future, and I will send out a meeting agenda as we get closer to the
meeting date. Basically, there are four items that need to be discussed at
the meeting: 1) SRES progress to date; 2) the open process; 3) scenario
revisions and additional work; and 4) planning the final report.
Please mark you calendars for this date and RSVP to both Zhou Dadi
([email protected]) and Anne Johnson ([email protected]) as soon
as possible I will be out of the office xxx xxxx xxxxSeptember and will not be
able to receive messages during this time.
Dear Keith,
Some days ago I came back from the Polar Ural Mountains. I was there
about 30 days making photos from the points where I have made photos
xxx xxxx xxxxyears ago and evaluating the changes which were happened during
this period. Unfortunately, Rashit could not be able to go to the
Yamal Peninsula for collecting subfossil wood this summer as a result
of deficiency of money.
Sincerely yours
Stepan Shiyatov
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: WGI emissions/scenarios conference
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:15 +0000 (GMT)
Mike
I think the problem is the same one as in 1988 and 1994. In order to answer the
question: "what is IPCC's best estimate of climate change over the next hundred
years, and the uncertainties?" we need a single best estimate of emissions (plus
a range of uncertainty). In the same way as modellres say "here is our best
estimate of climate sensitivity plus a range" then the SRES group should do the
same thing. Of course they can make all the usual disclaimers and talk about
surprises just as the climate modellers do. But NOT to come up with an estimate
for a Business as Usual emissions scenario (plus a range, of 6GtC to 30GtC at
2100) seems to be ducking responsibilities. "Getting away from single number
answers" is very laudable scientifically, but it presents policymakers (for
whome the whole IPCC exercise is undertaken) with a problem. As long as there is
a central estimate and a range, the surely both communities could be happy, as
they ultimately were with BaU in 1990 and IS92a in 1995?
Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
Sent: 15 September 1998 20:23
To: scenarios
Subject: WGI emissions/scenarios conference
Dear All,
Here are three comments on the questions raised by WGI TSU on 7 Sept. and
by some of the other contributions to the discussion about scenarios for
IPCC TAR. I am commenting from the perspective of a climate scenario
constructor servicing the impacts research community:
1. The SRES Working Group have identified 4 Marker Scenarios (out of a much
larger range, although these 4 largely capture the range). I think the
choice is good. I do not see why some modelling centres should not be able
to run all 4 emissions scenarios through their GCM. From an impacts
perspective I believe this would be very desirable and would enable a fair
range of climate change scenarios to be used in impacts work using direct
GCM output (without the need for scaling). And if all four Markers could
be run through more than one GCM (i.e., with different climate
sensitivities) then impacts work would have an even better sample of the
possible climate change space to analyse. These aspects of uncertainty
seem to me to be critical for impacts people (and integrated assessors) to
explore, to get us away from single number 'answers'.
Similarly, something needs to be done for CH4 and Nxxx xxxx xxxxemissions. CH4
1990 emissions range from 281 to 481Tg in the 4 Markers (compared with
506Tg in IS92). Surely this range is not defendable. I think at the least
we need some assurance from SRES that there has been some investigation
into these differences and that they will withstand scientific scrutiny in
peer review. Again, maybe the open-process may lead to revisions, but what
do climate modellers do in the meantime? [By the way, the difference in
global warming by 2100 that the SRES CH4 and N2O scenarios generates
relative to those in IS92a is between 0.05 and 0.3degC - lower in all cases].
Mike
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Dr Mike Hulme
Reader in Climatology tel: xxx xxxx xxxx
Climatic Research Unit fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
School of Environmental Science email: [email protected]
University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/
Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Mean temp. in Central England during 1998 is running
at about 1.2 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage
***************************************************
The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly estimate for the
first half of 1998 was about +0.60 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage,
the warmest such period yet recorded
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: No Subject
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:35:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Dear Phil,
Peck,
Thanks for the comments on the paper in The Holocene !
The paper stems from work Keith and I have been doing with the
Climate Change Detection group headed by Tim Barnett. It is
much toned down from some of the things about paleo data that
Tim and Simon Tett wanted to say. Long paleo series (either the
individual ones or regional/hemispheric averages) have got to
be good before these sorts of people will begin to use them and
believe they tell us something about variability in the past -
something that cannot be got from long control runs of GCMs.
A small meeting would be a good idea, therefore. Mike Mann
knows the next few times I'll be in the US. The first possible
date for him is the AMS annual meeting in Dallas in Jan 99 -
maybe we can tag something onto the end of this for a day or two.
I'll let you and Mike work something out on this. I'm also
in the US for a meeting on Climate Extremes which is tentatively
scheduled for March xxx xxxx xxxxin Asheville.
Prsentation of the paleo data is the key in all this. Tim
Barnett was somewhat horrified by the coherency diagrams he
produced (fig 9). He then produced Fig 10 from the GCM and
that was not much better. Hidden between the lines of the
paper is the theme that a number of us have been saying for
years ( especially Ray and Malcolm) that the LIA and MWE
were not that global and not that different from today's
temperatures. Mike's paper in Nature reiterates this. Keith
and I have been thinking of writing a forum piece for The
Holocene addressing in somewhat provocative terms what
paleoclimatologists should be doing with regard the detection
issue and to some extent with respect to science in general -
should be continue using terms like LIA and MWE for example.
We hope to address many of the issues you make in your email -
seasonality, consistency of the proxy through time, goodness
of the proxy etc. We need to come up with some agreed strategy
on this especially with IPCC coming up.
What we did in the paper was one way of assessing proxy
quality. Something like Tables 2 and 4 are what is required
though to inform the uninitiated (modellers) about proxy data.
For use in detection at the moment a paleo series has to be a
proxy for temperature. I know proxies tell us about other aspects
of the climate as well, but a clear, unambiguous temperature
signal is what is needed.
1) Happy to send to you all the series and the hemispheric values.
I hope Mike will send all his as well, but the last time we
discussed this he said that some could not be made freely
available. This isn't Mike's fault but there are still
some stumbling blocks to free exchange of data within the
various paleo communities.
3) Trees may not grow everywhere but they are more global in extent
than the others. There are also many more chronologies
available and this is a factor. We had much more choice there
than in the other paleo groups.
Cheers
Phil
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_______________________________________________________________________
Michael E. Mann
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences
Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
_______________________________________________________________________
e-mail: [email protected] (normal)
[email protected] (attachments)
Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxx FAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
Dear Geoff
it good to hear from you. By now you may know that we had a small working meeting
to consider the current draft of the thematic bid yesterday in London. Simon
Tett , Nick Shackleton , Paul Valdes and I really did get to grips with a lot of
the important details concerning the way in which such a project might actually
run. We are going for a joint Earth science/Atmospheric Science Board application
for 8 million to run over 5 years. Simon told us about your offer of some support
- perhaps as money , perhaps as some equivelent- and the spirit of the offer is
much appreciated. Frankly, the fact that you consider this a worthy and valid
scientific exercise is what really gives me cheer. We have a long way to go to
really sort out many of the problems with the palaeo data and with the methodology
of using them in a validation and/or detection context, but I genuinely believe
this approach will yield rewards somewhere down the line. I think our support from
the earth science side is very probable. The politics of the Atmospheric Board -
and the potential clash with other initiatives coming from Reading - mean that
their support ( in any meaningful sense) can't be thought of as more than
possible. I suppose we may have something like a near 50 % chance of eventually
getting some money , but 50% is pretty good. I will now ammend the document to
show an explicit requirement for formal supervisory input on the programme from
the Hadley Centre and I acknowledge that there will be no blanket release of data
whatever happens. I will forward the application to you soon. If we get through
the outline agreement stage with NERC , we will surely revisit these practical
details , along with others. For now I simply say thanks to you and John for your
support , and thanks for the input of Simon and Peter Cox. I will stay in touch as
and when things develop. Even if we fail here, the science imperative will mean
that we find other means of working with you -most likely through an EC grant - on
these issues.
Thanks again and I hope you are bearing up under the strain of recent troubles
Keith
Ray
this is simply to say that I will get my paper to you as soon as I can. Frank
knows that I am currently involved with writing a bid on behalf of the earth
science community to try to extract 8 million pounds for a 5 year project from
NERC to support Palaeo/Modelling validatin work. I was not allowed to say no to
this request and it is involving me in a lot of meetings and associated crap. I am
now redrafting the proposal. Also I must write my application to NERC for a
fellowship - if this fails Sarah and I are unemployed after December as things
stand. God knows there is little chance of success but the application must be in
be the end of September and I have not started it yet. This is a big deal for me
and I am putting you down as my primary suggested scientific referee. The PAGES
paper can only be done in mid October and I really need your and Frank's
understanding on this. I had to do the Thematic bid proposal as Nick Shackleton
asked me to , and I want to put him down as my primary Personal reference! In
early October I have to attend a NERC Earth Science Board meeting to defend the
Thematic bid; a meeting of PEP3 in Belgium;a UK CLIVAR meeting in London; an EC
meeting to present our ADVANCE-10K results in Vienna. This is not bullshit. I will
do the PAGES meetin paper as fast as I can and you must please allow me the leeway
. Sorry - but this will not really hold the publication up . If I could sort out
some funding I could afford to drop some of these things but with the EC future
also up in the air at the moment , I have to try to juggle these things. Sorry
again Ray
Keith
Once we set the dates with you (PLEASE SEND FAVORED DATES), Mike and Ray,
we can set the agenda. The main thing is that it would set the stage for
the extra degree of data sharing we'll need before the planned Santorini
mtg (still no dates - please bug Jean-Claude!!). Sound ok?
As for the data from your paper, I'd like to get them up with the data from
the other studies on the WDC www site asap. (JUST LET ME KNOW HOW!) The
White House is interested in knowing the state-of-the-art, and if we can
get everything together at one www site (including data and figs), I think
I can get some needed visibility for the paleo perspective. You probably
know this, but Henry Pollack's Borehole view of things (similar conclusions
to the other recent papers) is about to appear in Science. Although each
proxy and method does have it's limitations and biases, the multiproxy view
is compelling with regard to the patterns of temp change over the past
several centuries. The IPCC next time around should be much stronger than
last on the paleo side of things (although still not as good as it can
get!).
Of course, I'll continue to work with Mike and Ray to get the rest of the
individual series out into the public domain. Santorini should be the goal
- not alowwed on the island without coughing up data first!
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: climate of the last millennia...
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:28:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Hi Peck,
mike
_______________________________________________________________________
Michael E. Mann
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences
Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
_______________________________________________________________________
e-mail: [email protected] (normal)
[email protected] (attachments)
Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxx FAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
Dear Colleagues,
A meeting was held today on SRES scenarios during the IPCC plenary session
in Vienna. The meeting was organized by David Griggs, Fortunaat Joos,
Richard Moss, and Rob Swart. Also present were a number of delegates
including two Co-Chairs of IPCC, John Houghton from WGI and Bert Metz from
WGIII. Attached is a document with issues discussed during this meeting.
The meeting was very productive in my view, even though it was quite brief.
Two key issues were discussed that are listed in the attachment: (1)
incomplete information concerning SRES emissions as reported on the
website, and (2) consistency and plausibility of SRES scenarios and their
emissions.
(1) Incomplete information
It was agreed to ask the SRES writing team to further harmonize the ranges
for the base year and the period 1990 to 2000 across the scenarios for CO2,
CH4 and N2O. At the same time, David Griggs will contact the colleagues
from WGI to inquire whether the emissions ranges for these gases as given
in SAR have changed in the mean time and will inform the SRES colleagues
soon about the result. In particular, he will check whether the non-energy
CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions ranges are still appropriate as best guess for
the 1990 situation and about any new numbers about the ranges for more
recent years. It was also suggested that the SRES writing team discuss the
reasons for relatively low CH4 emissions in 1990 compared with the SAR range.
Most of the SRES models do not generate CFC and HFC emissions but these
emissions are important for climate models. It was agreed that David
Griggs will inquire with climate modelers whether they really need all
species of these gases or whether it is sufficient to report their joint
emissions. SRES team is to report whether these emissions could be added
to most of the model runs and over which time-scale. Joergen Fenhann is
in touch with a number of colleagues on this issue already and he is
planning to make a specific proposal how to handle this question across
SRES scenarios.
SRES sulfur emissions are considerably lower than the IS92 range. There
are a number of reasons for this difference that were discussed at the
meeting. It was decided that this exchange should continue in the future
so that there is a better understanding of all issues involved. This is a
new aspect of SRES scenarios that represents an important change since
IS92a, a change that was also suggested by the 1994 IPCC review of
emissions scenarios.
The concern raised by Hugh Pitcher (in the WGI scenario discussion group)
about high productivity growth in A1 scenarios was briefly mentioned. This
issue is to be settled within the SRES writing team, possibly by including
the formulation of alternative scenario variants.
The issue was discussed of generally lower CO2 and SO2 emissions across the
range of SRES scenarios and in particular for B2 marker. This results in
lower GHG forcing and lower "negative" SO2 forcing. The total forcing
remains roughly the same as in IS92a but has fundamentally different
implications especially at regional level.
Most of the climate models will be in the position to use just a few
scenarios, in some case, may be just two. Possible ways of avoiding the
impression that there is a "preferred" scenario were discussed and there
was a consensus that somehow the message needs to be conveyed that the
whole set of SRES scenarios is plausible and that there is really no single
"central" case that can be compared with IS92a.
Climate models need gridded SO2 emissions while SRES models generate SO2
emissions for a number world regions. Mike Schlesinger and Steve Smith
will attend the next SRES meeting and it was suggested that Mike would use
his method to produce gridded SO2 emissions and that Steve would use the
method proposed by Tom Wigley to do the same. This way there would be two
alternative gridded emissions patterns for all SRES scenarios available to
user groups.
Regards, Naki
my best wishes
Keith
CO2: (WGI-Ch.3)
-----------------------
I have not heard from colleagues on Ch. 3 regarding carbon-cycle
models for these scenarios that would be consistent with their
pending chapter..
The IPCC97 Mosier & Kroeze N2O budget stands: natural = 9.0
TgN/y and anthrop = 7.2 TgN/y. Thus ALL of the N2O scenarios
need to be scaled. Is this by a time-independent offset (e.g., +
5.5 TgN/y for B2)? or do we multiply the anthropogenic by a
constant factor (e.g., 3 for B2)?
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I would PROPOSE that WGI-Ch.4 define the algorithms (e.g., CH4
lifetime @ 1700 ppb plus
feedback factor and how to implement it) along with the
constraints of the 1990s and then let
the SRES scenario builders come up with a consistent set and send
these on to the AOGCMs.
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Earth System Science Dept xxx xxxx xxxx/fax-3256
UC Irvine, CA 92xxx xxxx xxxxhttp://www.ess.uci.edu
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: climate of the last millennia...
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:06:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Dear all,
I just wanted to thank Keith for his comments. They are right on target.
There is indeed, as many of us are aware, at least one key player in the
modeling community that has made overly dismissive statements about the
value of proxy data as late, because of what might be argued as his/her
own naive assessment/analysis of these data. This presents the danger of
just the sort of backlash that Keith warns of, and makes all the more
pressing the need for more of a community-wide strategizing on our part.
I think the workshop in Jan that Peck is hosting will go far in this
regard, and I personally am really looking forward to it!
cheers,
mike.
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Michael E. Mann
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences
Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
_______________________________________________________________________
e-mail: [email protected] (normal)
[email protected] (attachments)
Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxx FAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
I agree that we must be careful not to appear to be knocking other proxies- even
if this is not intended . We must also be explicit about where problems lie and in
suggesting the ways to overcome them. I for one do not think the world revolves
only around trees. The only sensible way forward is through interpretation of
multiple proxies and we need much more work comparing and reconciling the
different evidence they hold. Let's have more balance in the literature and more
constructive dialogue /debate between ourselves.
Keith
Dear Keith,
Using this chronology 1074 subfossil trees have been dated. Temporal
distribution of trees is attached (file "number"). Unfortunately, I
can't sign with confidence the belonging to certain species (larch or
spruce) of each tree at present.
Ring width data of 539 dated subfossil trees and 17 living larches are
attached (file "yamal.rwm"). Some samples measured on 2 or more radii.
First letter means species (l- larch, p- spruce, _ - uncertain), last
cipher - radius. These series are examined for missing rings. If you
need all the dated individual series I can send the rest of data, but
the others are don't corrected as regards to missing rings.
Residuary 1098 subfossil trees don't dated as yet. More than 200 of
them have less than 60 rings, dating of such samples often is not
confident. Great part undated wood remnants most likely older than
7000 years.
Best regards,
Rashit Hantemirov
Lab. of Dendrochronology
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology
8 Marta St., 202
Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
e-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx; phone: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx
Attachment Converted: "c:eudoraattachyamal.rwm"
Dear Keith,
below is the list of publications concerning Yamal chronology.
Hantemirov R.M. A 4309 year chronology for Yamal and its use for
reconstruction of climatic changes history on the north of West
Siberia // Problems of ecological monitoring and modelling of
ecosystems.- S.Petersburg: Gidrometeoizdat, 1998.- V.17 (in press)
I am not quite get your question about fieldwork. You mean "this year"
is 1998? If so it is too late now, on southern part of Yamal yesterday
was about -10 C. Next year we plane fieldwork, final decision about
where and when we will make in the beginning of next year. I would
like to go to Yuribey River, northward of our usual research area.
Best regards,
Rashit Hantemirov
Lab. of Dendrochronology
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology
8 Marta St., 202
Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
e-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx; phone: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx
Attachment Converted: "c:eudoraattacharticles.doc"
However, the distinction between 3.1 and 3.2 below is not clearcut. By the
end of the 900 year 2xCO2 experiment the thermal expansion for the HadCM2
model is nearly 5 times larger than that simulated by the fitted (over
1xxx xxxx xxxx) UD/EBM, and unlike the UD/EBM shows no sign of coming to
equilibrium. In our analysis we conclude that it is not immediately obvious
which if either model is correct. The difference serves to highlight the
uncertainty in the thermal expansion commitment. Incidently a fitted pure
diffusion/EBM gives good simulation of the HadCM2 results in both the short
and long term.
It would probably be difficult to use 2+D models for 3.1, so they may belong
here.
I think, 3.1 and 3.2 serve different purposes. Both may be desirable.
Whichever 3.1, 3.2 or both is adopted the results and the attendant simple
model versus A/OGCM comparisons should be given in the projections chapter.
A selection of the results should then carry over to the sea level chapter.
This consistency is very important.
For 3.1 in order to fit the A/OGCM results extensive comparisons using
alternative parameter values/models (for example, UD versus pure diffusion)
will be necessary. As well as my HadCM2 comparison mentioned above a
comparison with ECHAM3/LSG results is also well underway. In both cases the
work shows that it is advisable to calculate the effective climate
sensitivity of the A/OGCMs for use in the simple model. We found that the
effective climate sensitivity is non-constant but apparantly varies with the
surface temperature in these models. For this calculation and for
comprehensive model comparisons a specific list of A/OGCM output is
required. This includes decade ocean mean temperature profiles, a measure of
the strength of the thermohaline circulation, the A/OGCM forcing change for
2xCO2 etc. I am keen to continue these comparisons specifically as input to
the new IPCC assessments. Unfortunately, and I think mistakenly, the US DOE
have recently decided to discontinue this line of research. An endorsement
of the need for this work by the IPCC would help my attempts to acquire
funding elsewhere.
For 3.2 there would be no need of tuning to A/OGCM results and many model
results could be used to give a range. This would serve a different purpose
to 3.1 where A/OGCM results are interpolated/extrapolated for different
sensitivities and forcings.
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| Dr S. C. B. Raper |
| Climatic Research Unit |
| University of East Anglia |
| Norwich |
| NR4 7TJ |
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| Tel. xxx xxxx xxxx |
| Fax xxx xxxx xxxx |
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I wish to pick up on two of the points raised by Sarah Raper and Jonathan
Gregory which, while not directly answering the questions posed above, need
a clear position being taken upon by IPCC. These two points are:
This is indeed a separate question and one on which Chapter 13 can and will
'assess' the science. Scaling of GCM results has been widely used by
impacts/integrated assessors since CRU started using this methodology in
the early 1990s. Whether or not to adopt/recommend scaling methods for the
IPCC TAR was side-stepped by the TGCIA, although it was clearly stated
within the TGCIA that basing all impacts work on 1% p.a. forced GCMs which
represented a narrow range of climate sensitivities, would skew impacts
results in a particular (and not altogether desirable) direction. Chapter
13 will also recognise this problem and will assess the pros and cons of
scaling based on simple models, but given the short length of Chapter 13,
its remit now is not to convert any headline simple model results from
Chapters 9 and 11 into scaled regional scenarios for impacts work - by
mid-late 1999 it will be too late for that anyway. So, different impact
studies will now adopt different approaches, and WGII can assess the
resulting science, but what will help the writing of Chapter 13 and WGII
will be as clear a statement of intent (and ideally some preliminary
results) of the sort of exercises that Sarah and Jonathan refer to,
preferably using the new SRES emissions scenarios.
Mike
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Dr Mike Hulme
Reader in Climatology tel: xxx xxxx xxxx
Climatic Research Unit fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
School of Environmental Science email: [email protected]
University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/
Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Mean temp. in Central England during 1998 is running
at about 1.05 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage
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The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly estimate for the
first half of 1998 was about +0.60 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage,
the warmest such period yet recorded
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trwcrn.rwm
Tree-ring widths (TRW) chronology:
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Ident., Trees, Inent. N (trees)
No. No.
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xxx xxxx xxxx all living and dead 2209-years chronology
2)* xxx xxxx xxxxMAY,925,927,928, CHA044
3)* xxx xxxx xxxxCHA-H1
4)* xxx xxxx xxxxMAY702
5)* xxx xxxx xxxxNOV001
6)* xxx xxxx xxxxCHA-H6
7)* xxx xxxx xxxxNOV078
8)* xxx xxxx xxxxNOV-A02
9)* xxx xxxx xxxxCHA005
10)* xxx xxxx xxxxNOV029
11)* xxx xxxx xxxxCHA060,012,009,017,001
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* - calibrated radiocarbon age
2) MAY,925,927,928, CHA044
296=N -670=I 2) 4 samples (MAY925,927,928, CHA0xxx xxxx xxxx(13F6.0)~
42xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000128xxx xxxx xxxx
51xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
78xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
55xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx250
39xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx250
15xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
59xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
33xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx250
42xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
23xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx750
43xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
14xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx778
58xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
77xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx125
51xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx438
19xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx833
55xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx167102750103xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
92xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx583
46xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx167
27xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
23xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx750
27xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
10xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
3) CHA-H1
306=N -1398=I 3) 1 sample (CHA-Hxxx xxxx xxxx -3(20F4.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
11701xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx51xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
4) MAY702
270=N -2456=I 4) 1 sample (MAY7xxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxx 89124144xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx161102130153109
123128153124147xxx xxxx xxxx134xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 36 73
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 30 16
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 20 16
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 14 10
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 19 21
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 14 19
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 12 12
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 5 9
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 8 10
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx
5) NOV001
246=N -2923=I 5) 1 sample (NOV0xxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 33115148xxx xxxx xxxx 57119179106182
169117127160187162143170102xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx125xxx xxxx xxxx
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 79xxx xxxx xxxx103
xxx xxxx xxxx 39xxx xxxx xxxx 83116138xxx xxxx xxxx113128103158
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx 52 52
xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 38 18
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 22 29
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 20 38
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 31 28
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx
6) CHA-H6
345=N -3178=I 6) 1 sample (CHA-Hxxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxx 87138157143xxx xxxx xxxx147xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx
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xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 33 37
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 29 4
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 61 20
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 18 16
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 33 43
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 38 47
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 26 42
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 4 15
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 9 7
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 32 42
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 28 5
xxx xxxx xxxx 26
7) NOV078
299=N -3358=I 7) 1 sample (NOV0xxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxx136142152115153161154xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx118
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 49 3
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 38 41
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 98 33
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 88xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 90
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 32 50
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 41 50
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 23 13
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 17 16
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 29 24
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 34 20
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 24
8) NOV-A02
286=N -3457=I 8) 1 sample (NOV-Axxx xxxx xxxx -5(13F6.0)~
83xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
94xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
35xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
29xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
77xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
54xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
65xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
77xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
41xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
22xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
45xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
4xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
25xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
76xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
25xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
14xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
41xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
28xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
30xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
53xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
53xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000105500117xxx xxxx xxxx
123000139xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
9) CHA005
198=N -3513=I 9) 1 sample (CHA0xxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 18 19
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 90103
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 49 34
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 69 67
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 37 44
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 29 27
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 85 38
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx124116145141
10) NOV029
306=N -3634=I 10) 1 sample (NOV0xxx xxxx xxxx -2(26F3.0)~
129159235264201202138213132xxx xxxx xxxx115xxx xxxx xxxx108104175111
xxx xxxx xxxx 83xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx102
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 78132
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 52 27
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 17 31
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 18 36
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 42 54
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 42 41
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 34 57
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 39 37
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 13 17
xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx 9 9
11) CHA060,012,009,017,001
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10xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
14xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
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45xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
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25xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx500
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39xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx052
22xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx343
56xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx367
43xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx716
19xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
39xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
51xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
60xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
30xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
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41xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx274
77xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx297
21xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx814
22xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx706
67xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx614
60xxx xxxx xxxx100100xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
97654102xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx
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48xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx721
46xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx223
52xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx673
61xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx838
56xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx765
72xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx281
33xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx192
51xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx200
40xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx003
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11xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx290
32xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx201
38xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx525
11xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
57xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx867
11xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
17xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
10xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
18xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
56xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000
43xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx000114xxx xxxx xxxx000113xxx xxxx xxxx
103000106000110xxx xxxx xxxx000133000180000178000
tem-rcs.rwm
Temperature reconstructed:
1) Early summer temperature reconstructed, RCS-RES chronology
2) Early summer temperature reconstructed, RCS-RES chronology (5-years moving
average)
3) Annual temperature reconstructed, RCS-chronology (5-years moving average)
Eugene
I am told that the money transfer xxx xxxx xxxxu.s. dollars) should have gone to
the bank account you stated. Please let me know if this is received by you. I now
also have the contract signed by INTAS and we must organise future work and I will
talk to Fritz about us visiting Ekaterinburg next year. In the meantime I wish you
and Stepan to organise major review papers of the Yamal and Taimyr long chronology
staus for inclusion in the Holocene ADVANCE-10K Special Issue. These need to be
completed by June at the latest . They will each be xxx xxxx xxxxpages of print. I
can suggest content, do some analyses and help with editing these . I am also
sending Stepan's 5000 dollars to Switzerland now to be carried back by his
colleague. I have yet to sort out how claims on the INTAS money will be handled.
Have you received the details of the final contract?
best wishes
Keith
Using Jim's Schulman Grove example suppose that the area supported a
stand of bristlecone pine 9,000 or more years ago, hence the scattered
remnants. Either a major catastrophic event or a fluctuation in climate
(call it climate change if you want) resulted in conditions that killed
the mature trees and eliminated any further recruitment for up to 1,000
years. This site may be near the limits of recruitment and with a major
(or minor perhaps) change in climate it could easily be beyond the
limits of recruitment. About 8,000 years ago climate again became
favorable for bristlecone pine recruitment and a new stand(s) developed
and have existed ever since. Some or most of the material remaining
from the original stand may be buried down in the valley, or the
original stand may have been small or sparse. The amount of time
between the loss of the original stand and the beginning of the new
stand would depend on the period of unfavorable weather and the amount
of time needed for bristlecone pine to re-invade the area. I am out on
a limb here, so to speak, as I an somewhat ignorant of prehistoric
climate patterns for the area and of bristlecone pine ecology, but this
seems like a relatively reasonable scenario.
Bob Keeland
USGS, National Wetlands Research Center
Lafayette, LA
[email protected]
Dear All --
> 6. Regarding para. 67, I am more concerned about the "best" or "central"
> estimate for climate sensitivity of 2.5 deg.C for 2xCO2 than about the
> range. Several lines of evidence (paleo-evidence, fitting models to the
> last 100 years, the distribution of improved model results) all suggest
> that the "best estimate" for this increasingly dated and artificial
> notion should be raised from 2.5 to nearer 3.5. This would be
> controversial, but I believe it would also be giving the best advice
> possible. Whatever you believe is the correct number, the level of
> concern such a change would raise is in itself evidence for the
> importance of central estimates in the climate change debate.
> 7. I share Martin Manning's problems with the use of the term "Bayesian"
> and equating it with "subjective". Personally I think this paper should
> avoid such specialist technical terms if possible, especially if there
> is disagreement about what they mean!
Regards
Bryson Bates
LS
PLEASE DO SO USING THE FACILITIES OF THE WEBSITE, DO NOT USE THE EMAIL
ADDRESS OF THE SENDER OF THIS MESSAGE OR THE EMAIL GROUP LIST ABOVE!!!!
On behalf of Dr. Nakicenovic, thank you very much for your support to this
important endeavour!
Thanks
Bill
> Bill,
>
> The version of MAGICC we are distributing is the IPCC SAR 1996
> version. You can get that from me under Licence for $50. If you
> wish to proceed let me know and I can send it you with invoice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> At 17:59 16/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear Mike
> >
> >I would like to know how to get the most recent version of MAGICC and
> >of COMICC (carbon cycle model). I heard from a colleague that you
> >may be distributing MAGICC??
> >
> >I look forward to hearing from you,
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Bill Hare
> >
> >Bill Hare
> >Climate Policy Director
> >Greenpeace International
> >Keizersgracht 176
> >1016 DW Amsterdam
> >The Netherlands
> >
> >Phone: xxx xxxx xxxx
> >Fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
> >Email: [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
>
Bill Hare
Climate Policy Director
Greenpeace International
Keizersgracht 176
1016 DW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Dear Keith,
Thank you for the money transfer via Fritz Schweingruber. I received
5000 USD. Is it necessary to give you a receipt for this sum of money?
Money will be used for organization of field works in the Yamal
Peninsula and Polar Urals next year. Of course, this sum is not
enough. I hope we shall have an additional money from the INTAS
project and the Russian Funds.
I received two copy of the INTAS contract from Fritz and one copy I
sent to E. Vaganov. We would like to know your opinion concerning
transfer money.
Also, I need to know exact time you and Fritz intend to visit
Ekaterinburg next year. The new rules demand to make application to
the Russian officials before 6 months of your arriving. Do you want
or not to travel in the area of Southern Ural Mountains after meeting
in Ekaterinburg? Fritz wants to travel over this area (the Taganai and
Iremel Mountains).
Sincerely yours,
Lab. of Dendrochronology
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology
8 Marta St., 202
Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia
e-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx
Phone: +7 (34xxx xxxx xxxx
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Dear All, The most pertinent document is item one on copyright. Some ENv policy
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News on non-Framework Programme 5, programmes & policy
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GENERAL:
1. ESF on Copyright Law
2. GENERAL - Policy documents
LIFE SCIENCES:
3. DG V - Newsletter on Alzheimer's Disease
4. Microbiology - Industrial Platform
ENVIRONMENT:
5. ENVIRONMENT - Policy documents
ENERGY:
6. Synergy - International Cooperation in Energy
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES:
7. Public-Sector Information
EDUCATION:
10. Leonardo Database on Cordis
REGIONAL FUNDS:
11. Mid-term Review for Structural Funds
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The European Science Foundation is warning that current plans for new EU
copyright laws, if left unchanged, could harm the international
competitiveness of European research. The Commission's draft Directive
harmonising aspects of copyright will shortly be debated by the Council of
Ministers. The ESF is calling for changes to be made to the wording of one
of the Directive's key articles which deals with 'exceptions' to the
proposed laws to ensure that it doesn't cause legal and financial headaches
for Europe's researchers.
The first edition of the Alzheimer Europe quarterly newsletter has been
published by DG V (Public Health). The newsletter is intended to draw
attention to the aims and activities of Alzheimer Europe, a grouping of
national organisations dealing with Alzheimer's disease. The newsletter
includes news of research, events and conferences relevant to the field. It
will focus on important developments in the European institutions which
affect people with dementia and is also intended to be a platform for the
exchange of ideas between organisations and institutes active in the field
of Alzheimer's disease. Each issue will include reports on EC-funded
transnational projects, beginning in the first edition with London's
Institute of Psychiatry EUROCARE project. The next edition of the
newsletter will be published towards the end of March 1999.
FURTHER INFORMATION: Alzheimer Europe, tel 00xxx xxxx xxxx, fax 00xxx xxxx xxxx
972,email: [email protected], URL: http://www.alzheimer-europe.org
The financial reference for the Synergy programme will be ECU 15 million.
Of this, ECU 6m will be for the period 1998 to 1999. The finances for the
period between 2000 and 2002 will be reviewed if the amount ECU 9m is not
consistent with the financial perspective for that period.
7. Public-Sector Information
The European Commission has decided to publish a Green Paper on how the
information gathered by government departments and other public bodies can
be used to provide the greatest benefit for citizens and businesses in
Europe. A lot of information gathered by public bodies for carrying out
their duties could be used by the multimedia industry for developing new
products and services. Citizens could make better use of their rights if,
for example, information was readily available on the conditions for
working, studying or living as a pensioner in other Member States. Many
people would like to have full information on the tax regulations for
cross-border purchases. The competitiveness of businesses could be
increased if they had a quick and easy means of finding out what the
regulations and procedures are for exporting to other countries. All this
information exists, but the technical and legal procedures and terms under
which the Member States make it available are uncoordinated and therefore
not very transparent for citizens and business. The Green Paper calls for
these matters to be discussed and asks questions about how the situation
can be improved.
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DG XXII and Cordis have approved plans to include the products database of
the Leonardo da Vinci Programme on the Cordis service. The publication of
the Leonardo Da Vinci products database on Cordis should allow its
continual update. This is hoped to improve interaction between the owners
of products and their users. The schedule for the launch of this database
on Cordis has yet to be confirmed.
The European Commission approved a report on the mid-term review for the
poorest (Objective 1) and sparsely populated regions (Objective 6) in the
European Union (EU) for the present programming period (1xxx xxxx xxxx). It
gives an overview of the mid-term evaluations carried out for the
Structural Funds programmes during the current programming period. The
report shows important achievements, e.g. when it comes to reducing
disparities in basic infrastructure, energy diversification or
environmental improvements.
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Dear Mike,
thanks for your message. I am sure we can work with these files as
soon as we know how the grid is organized. Is it line by line from the
North to the South, starting at the dateline? Or something different?
Yes indeed, it would be the best to work with *your* xxx xxxx xxxxbaseline
for this. Does the baseline also contain cloudiness? If not, then I
intend to generate that from our own files, and we will make the
assumption that, on the level of monthly means, this does not change
as much as to significantly affect the sensitivity of vegetation to
the other forcings.
Yes, I will come to the ACACIA meeting, at least until the second
day in the afternoon - after that I have to juggle two other meetings
in Holland and Germany. With some luck, I should be able to present
some results there.
Best wishes!
Wolfgang
> Wolfgang,
> Martin is dragging his feet, but you have convinced me we should distribute
> them anyway. I have got someone onto it today and with luck may have the
> minimum (8 realisations for 4 scenarios and for 3 timeslices and for Tmean,
> Precip and DTR on the HadCM2 grid for the entire world) completed and on an
> ftp site by Friday. I will also let Nigel know about this. Presumably you
> will use the 1xxx xxxx xxxx.5deg baseline data? Our files will present
> *changes* from 1xxx xxxx xxxxon a mean monthly basis on the 2.5 by 3.75 grid.
> Mike
> p.s. the files will be in the same format as the attached file to this
> email - just so that you can start thinking about what you need to do.
mailto:[email protected]
Hi Frank and friends - I'm happy to see the budget looking sound and feel
Franks suggestions are good ones in terms of money to spend this year.
Building on the Swiss paleoclimate course is a good idea, and, of course,
we should decide on future REDIE investments at future SSC's. My gut
feeling is that REDIE will have to continue to be a lower priority in the
future, BUT that we should stay committed to getting scientists (including
youngsters) from developing countries to our science mtgs - makes more
sense than training probably, given tight budgets. Thanks,Peck
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I now share with you some ideas about our financial situation in PAGES. I
>think the information should be treated confidentially at this stage and
>certainly with some discretion.
>
>During the course of last year, it was very difficult to keep track of our
>financial position from month to month, partly because it took our
>financial contacts in the University of Bern an inordinately long time to
>sort out the financial implications of the OSM, partly because, in the
>course of doing this, they made some understandable but very significant
>and confusing errors. Niklaus has now managed to sort these out and we also
>have our confirmed budget for 1999 - which means that we can begin to do
>some real planning.
>
>The first significant point is that we are carrying over into 1999 a
>surplus some US$15k greater than we began with in 1998. In fact we have
>been building up our 'carry-over' steadily since the beginning of 1996 and
>it is now around $67k - between 13% and 14% or our annual budget and a much
>higher proprtion of that part of our budget that is uncommitted each year.
>Whilst I believe it would be unwise to eliminate it entirely, I do think we
>should aim to reduce it significantly provided there is a good rationale
>for the means we choose.
>
>I have attached a summary of how I see things for 1999. You will see that
>even if we spend all the funds committed to workshops at our Pallanza
>meeting, we still have a very healthy surplus. On past experience, I do not
>think this sum will be exceeded during 1999 - even if we have one or two
>more urgent requests, they are more than likely to be offset by delayed
>workshops, so I think this is actually likely to be an over-estimate.
>Moreover, I have assumed that ALL the money allocated by IGBP for Synthesis
>will be spent in 1999. We are under some pressure to do this, but the pace
>of the exercise makes me suspect that we may have difficulty.
>
>At the end of the Table, I list 3 additional commitments I would like to
>propose for prioiritizing and I discuss each briefly below:
>
>1. REDIE (which you may remember stands for Regional Educational and
>Infrastructure Efforts (about which we have, so far, said very little and
>done even less).
>
> In this area, one of the ideas gently simmering on the back burner has
>been the notion of winning support from START to run something like a
>Summer School for selected young scientists from developing countries. This
>emerged from an informal discussion between ouselves in the Office, Bruno
>and Roland Fuchs, the Director of START, when he was over here on a visit.
>At the time, he seemed quite keen on the idea, but has since been silent.
>No matter, I still feel it is an idea worth working towards at least up to
>the pre-commitment stage and I have been exploring informally the
>possibility of basing such a course in London.
>
>This coming summer, I think we may have a chance to do a kind of partial
>trial run. Thomas Stocker and Andy Lotter (a first class paleolimnologist
>here in Bern) plan to run a Summer School nearby this year. Thomas
>approached me some time ago to see if PAGES could support participation by
>any overseas students and my reply was a very cautious one to the effect
>that we would normally expect to be approached and have an input at the
>planning stage and that we would only really consider such a possibility in
>the context of training for scientists from developing countries. Having
>discussed the whole thing more fully with him, I begin to wonder whether
>it may offer quite an interesting possibility. My plan would be to seek
>nomination of/applications from say 3 to 5 young scientists from different
>parts of the developing/former eastern bloc world (represnting each of the
>PEP Transects) and bring them to Bern both for the course and for a short
>period linked into the PAGES Office. The ideas behind the latter part of
>the suggestion would be to
> - support their participation if need be,
> - give them some sense of PAGES and its role in nternational global
>change science/IGBP etc and
> - solicit feedback and advice about what the shape of an ideal course for
>developing country scientists interested in PAGES activities might be.
>
>I believe that even if we did not have something like REDIE in our
>Implementation Plan it should be an important commitment; since we do, it
>is an absolute obligation which we ignore at the risk of serious
>allegations of bad faith.
>
>2. I feel there will be a need to follow up my PEP II visit to Australia
>with something positive there. John Dodson is responding well to
>suggestions about more co-ordination and bringing in more colleagues to
>share the responsibility, but I think that if whatever we agree in Perth is
>actually to work, there will be a need to fund a WORKshop (as distinct from
>a mini-symposium) of thematic and/or regional co-ordinators to get their
>act together. We should offer money for this.
>
>3. The difference it has made having Cathy Stickley (based at UCL) working
>for PEP III is fantastic, but we risk losing her input unless something can
>be done. I'm negotiating with ESF, but it will be over a year before their
>finely grinding mills deliver anything. Rick and Francoise are also going
>to apply to EC for Framework 5 funding, but that will be no quicker. I am
>seriously considering asking Zimmie to help bridge the gap since he did not
>quite close the door when I last talked this through with him, but I feel
>that if I do this, PAGES might need to put up a bit more colateral, the
>more so since we are in credit.
>
>Both 2 and 3 reflect my view that the PEP's remain an absolutely vital part
>of the PAGES structure and need to be supported if that is the only way
>they can achieve their objectives.
>
>All three of the above suggestions require some endorsement in principle
>before I take them any further. If we were to spend all the funds envisaged
>before the end of 1999, our budget credit would be very much reduced -
>probably by too much, but I believe the PEP funding would probably be paced
>over a longer period and that the other items in our budget are more likely
>to be marginally under- than over-spent, so I do not feel we are proposing
>any unreasonable risk.
>
>I look forward to any reactions members of EXCOMM may have to these
>suggestions.
>
>Withh all good wishes,
>
>Frank
>
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Budget for 1999 (RTF /MSWD) (0000B314)
>____________________________________________
>Frank Oldfield
>
>Executive Director
>PAGES IPO
>Barenplatz 2
>CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland
>
>e-mail: [email protected]
>
>Phone: xxx xxxx xxxx; Fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
>http://www.pages.unibe.ch/pages.html
Dear all,
thank you for the meeting on tuesday. I think it went well. Here as
promised and slightly late is a summary of what we discussed. Myles can
you forward the message to Michael. Can you let me know if you are all
happy with this and once I have made any corrections you want I'd like
to send it to John, Geoff and Tim Barnett -- anyone else you think
should get it?
Keith/Phil have 400 sites of high quality tree ring density data which
there are willing to let HC (Mat) use to do a crude model/data
comparision. Mat and Tim to liase on what they are doing. Note that
funny things are happening in the density data post 1950. Also available
may be some borehole data [Phil to talk to Pollock/Wang about
possibility] which could use to compare with model -- should consider
using lower soil temperature rather than 1. m temp. There are a few
sites with data from 0A to 2000 as well as many sites with data for 1700
to 2xxx xxxx xxxxshould consider both. There may be some other tree ring data
which tells us something about SW USA precip and thus ENSO.
Tim wants to compare patterns of temperature var from the proxy data
and compare that with the models i.e compare "observed" and modelled
covariance structure rather than just the variability. Also Tim wants to
try and unpick Mann's stuff.... HC to provide solar forced run from 1700
-- Me to check if it goes from 1700!
Our approach will be to compare model data "directly" with Proxy data
rather than do Interpolation a la GISST or Mann et al.
EU proposal
Not clear if in this years framework 5 call there will be room for
Detection/Attribution proposals (which is how we'd like to frame a
model/proxy comparision). Other issue is that QUARCC 2 and model/proxy
comparision could involve similar institutions which could cause
problems. Phil to check if room this year for proposal. Keith pointed
out that we can't just recycle the NERC thematic proposal (PRESIENT).
There is good news on that fron which suggests the proposal will go
through with an 8 million pound budget!!!
Not much said on that (or at least I didn't note it) Phil -- you have
some advice for me on that?
CLIVAR/PAGES
In the next 1-2 years there may be new reasonable quality ice core and
sedimentation data available. Data availablity from the proxy and
modelling groups is an issue (another reason for an EU proposal!).
Phil pointed out that there is a lot of instrumental data (in "funny"
units) which could be digitised in Europe.
Simon
From: <[email protected]>
To: Keith Briffa <[email protected]>
Subject: Some information about the super-long tree-ring chronology
the East of Taymir and Putoran
Dear Keith
I sent two variants of letter by mail few days ago.
Hope that you received fax copy of it.
There are the references you ask:
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1990:xxx xxxx xxxx.
41.Methods of Dendrochronology.Applications in the Environmental Sciences
(E.Cook,L.Kairiukstis, eds.),Kluwer Acad.Publ.,Dordtrecht, 1990,-394 pp.
42.Schweingruber F.H., Briffa K.R.,Jones P.D. Yearly maps of summer temperatures
in Western Europe from A.D. 1750 to 1975 and Western North America from
1600 to 1982: results of radiodensitometrical study on tree rings."Vegetatio",
1991,92:5-71.
43.Schweingruber F.H. Tree Rings and Environment.Dendroecology. Paul Haupt
Publ.,Berne/Stuttgart/Vienna, 1996,-609 pp.
44.Vaganov E.A., Naurzbaev M.M.,Schweingruber F.H.,Briffa K.R.,Moell M. An
840-year tree-ring width chronology for taymir as an indicator of summer
temperature changes."Dendrochronologia", 1996,14:xxx xxxx xxxx.
Regards, Gene.
Dear Fred,
The following legends refer to the appropriately titled post-script files that
will be sent to you separately by my colleague Tim Osborn.
Please note that these results are products of the European Community funded
project ADVANCE-10K (Analysis of Dendrochronological Variability and Associated
Natural Climates in Eurasia - the last 10,000 years).Environment and Climate
Programme Contract ENV4-CTxxx xxxx xxxx. See also
http://www.cru.ac.uk/cru/research/
Figure 1
Annually averaged tree-ring density data from 400 high-latiude or high-elevation
sites around the Northern Hemisphere. This series represents interannual and
multidecadal summer temperature variability from A.D.1400 onwards. This series
shows circum-hemispheric summer temperature variability on interannual and multi-
decadal timescales and demonstrates the relative cooling effect of known, and some
probably as yet unknown, large explosive volcanic eruptions.
Figure 2
Normalized tree-ring -density anomalies around the Northern hemisphere showing
patterns of likely summer temperature changes year by year through the relatively
cool decade of the 1810s, in part caused by major volcanic eruptions in 1809 and
1815.
Figure 3
Decadally-smoothed timeseries of standardized radial tree growth at three high
northern latitude regions during the last 2000 years : Tornetrask, N.Sweden
(20E);Yamal(70E)and Taimyr(102E),Russia. Positive and negative values of these
data represent relatively warm and cool summers, associated at each location with
the strength and position of large-scale atmospheric circulation features.
I have asked Phil Jones here to send you a post script file and reference for the
mean 1000-year Nortern Hemisphere curve. His email address is shown above.
You may be also interested in some reconstructions of the NAO made by various
people. If so ask Tim about these.
best wishes
Keith
Dear TGCIA'ers,
I have two questions to raise with you regarding the IPCC Data Distribution
Centre. The first one concerns advice regarding a GCM submission to the
DDC and the second concerns mirror web sites for the DDC.
1. GCM submission.
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The LMD (through Herve Le Treut) has requested the runs from LMD coupled
GCM be lodged with the DDC. His original request (July 1998) is appended
below as text ATTACHMENT 1. We originally rejected the submission on the
grounds that the runs were not historically forced, i.e., they were
cold-start experiments with 1% p.a. forcing being introduced from 'current'
baseline and different to all other DDC runs.
We need to take TGCIA soundings on this. Strictly, the LMD runs do *not*
qualify according to the criteria the TGCIA established back in May 1997.
The question is how flexible are we prepared to be and whether including
model runs with a different experimental design may either a) confuse
impacts users and/or b) invalidate inter-model comparisons. Bear in mind
also that if/when new GCM results forced by SRES forcings are generated
this summer and beyond, we will need to consult again about how the DDC
handles/presents these new SRES runs. At present the DDC does not have a
mandate for these either.
Proposed mirror sites might include: CSIRO (Victoria), IIT (Delhi), NCAR
(USA) and Cape Town (S.Africa). Maybe a Japanese site also.
The mirror sites could consist only of the Green Pages (about 0.5GB
requirement) or both Green and Yellow Pages (several GB requirement, but I
have not checked exactly how much with DKRZ). I know that we can arrange
for the mirror sites to automatically refresh every 24 hours therefore
reflecting perfectly any developments on the host mother-site (i.e., the
mirror sites must be perfect mirrors).
Could I also ask for your views on the desirability of these options,
whether Green only or Green plus Yellow, how many mirrors and where they
should be? Please let me have your views on this also by Monday 12 April.
*********
In considering both these questions it is perhaps worth thinking about the
longer-term future of the DDC beyond TAR and into 4th IPCC Assessment.
Although TGCIA and the DDC has now only a mandate through the lifetime of
TAR, for us to really learn from our experiences and to achieve full
benefits for IPCC, then we need to be thinking ahead beyond year 2000.
*********
Mike Hulme
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ATTACHMENT 1
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Subject:
From: [email protected] at internet
Date: 9/7/98 9:08 pm
Dear Maria,
At the IPCC meeting a week ago, I spoke with M. Hulme concerming the
possibility of having our simulations being integrated in the IPCC
data base (DDA?)
Our main problem concerns the definition of the experiments. We have used
a model without flux correction and have decided to start from observed
Levitus data. The coupled model has some drift but it stabilizes rather
quickly and the thermohaline circulation is quite stable
Accordingly our initial CO2 value corresponds to a recent past: 320 ppm.
>From that value we have increased directly the CO2 concentration of
1 percent per year. We have therefore not allowed for an 'historic'
increase of the CO2 before the actual 1percent increase, which is due
to a lack of understanding of the IPCC rules.
My question is two-fold:
- Can our experiment nevertheless be integrated in the IPCC data base.
This is important to us: if it cannot we will not realize the sulfate
experiment we had planned to do, and wait for the future scenarios to be
decided.
- I hope that I will be more easily aware of the IPCC initiatives in the
future. But is there any procedure through which we can make sure in
advance that a given experiment we decide to carry out does get
approoved by the IPCC?
Sincerely yours
Herve
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Herve Le Treut
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Universite PetM Curie ,
Tour15-25, 5eme etage, boite 99, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05
(mail sent to Ecole Normale Superieure also reaches me)
tel: +33 (xxx xxxx xxxxfax : +33 (xxx xxxx xxxx
secretariat du LMD a Jussieu: +33 (xxx xxxx xxxx
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ATTACHMENT 2
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last week I have a discussion with Herve LeTreut from LMD in Paris about
the DDC rejection of the French contribution to the climate scenario
calculations. He informed that the climate modellers are running into
political difficulties because no French data are contained in the DDC.
We have rejected the data last year because they design of his
experiments are not directly comparable to the DDC requirements. A
recalculation is not possible within short term.
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Dr Mike Hulme
Reader in Climatology tel: xxx xxxx xxxx
Climatic Research Unit fax: xxx xxxx xxxx
School of Environmental Science email: [email protected]
University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/
Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Annual mean temperature in Central England during 1999
is about +1.5 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage
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The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly for 1998
was +0.58 deg C above the 1xxx xxxx xxxxaverage, the warmest year yet recorded
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Mike
I am off to Finland for a week but I am sending you (via Tim) a copy of a draft
perspectives piece for Science on you recent 1000-year reconstruction paper . They
want to run it in early May I think and I have been told I will see their edited
draft on my return. The idea was to make a wider comment that just report on your
latest curve so I decided to mention uncertainties in tree-ring data while pushing
the need for more work on high-resolution proxies and especially interpretive work
in the very recent context of high temperatures and other possible anthropogenic
environmental disturbance. The trouble is that they would only give us 1000 words
and one Figure. Anyway this Figure now contains a selection of various large-scale
temperature average series - all recalibrated against northern warm season (april-
sept) average land data north of 20 degrees north. This is just to provide a
convenient common scale - all the original season /area references are given. You
will see that this brings phil's curve nicely back in line and the correct (low
frequency ) density curve now fits better also. I have taken the opportunity to
put our new longish (2000-year)tree-ring width curve in representing the north of
Europe/Siberia . This is the average of Tornetrask(Sweden) and Yamal and
Taimyr(Siberia ) - all processed to retain low-frequency variance. These curves
and a similar average incorporating all the Northern tree-ring data (not including
the large density set) are in my paper for the Pages open science meeting
publication. Tim and I will produce a short paper describing the new low-frequency
density curve , probably for Geophysical Research Letters. For the meantime I hope
you think the perspectives piece is O.K. Let me know if you have any problems with
it - but remember that they are going to hack it about anyway. By the way, how did
you compare the high-elevation (PC1) timeseries with Jacoby and D'Arrigo's
northern treeline data in your paper when the latter only go back to 1671 ? Did
you use their reworked Gidding's dataset for Alaska?
Thanks for the message on the IPCC stuff . I am happy to write any additional bits
or make suggestions . Sorry I did not get back to you last time but I was confused
about the timetable . Thanks for putting my name on the list. I will make comments
again as soon as I see the next draft. Cheers
Keith
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: No Subject
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:05:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Dear Keith
With regard to this point, I have some issues with your Figure
that accompanies the piece. It is quite ironic
given your comments about the potential impacts of
standardization on the long-timescale veriations. For our
millennial reconstruction we have verified as carefully as
has ever been verified, that the millennial scale trend is
likely to be meaningful. I don't think you have done so for
the 2000 year-long trend in the series you show, and if you
have not verified that it is likely to have retained 2000 year
long trends, it is VERY misleading to show this series along
with the others. I don't believe that it is likely to accurately
represent the 2000 year long trend in NOrthern Hemisphere mean
temperature, as you imply by showing it here. I think this series
needs to be removed from the plot. I have a related comment
below (point #5).
if you care to, you can download the galley version here:
ftp://eclogite.geo.umass.edu/pub/mann/ONLINE-PREPRINTS/ENSO-recon/
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Thanks for your consideration of the above comments. I believe
your piece will make an excellent "Perspectives" article for
Science, once these comments are appropriately taken into account.
I'll leave it to the Science editor in charge to determine if
that is the case.
best regards,
mike.
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Michael E. Mann
________Current_____________________________Starting Fall 1999_________
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences | Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Morrill Science Center | Clark Hall
University of Massachusetts | University of Virginia
Amherst, MA 01xxx xxxx xxxx | Charlottesville, VA 22903
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e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] (attachments)
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxxFAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike
Keith,
Brian
Dear Keith,
I cannot speak for most of these data directly but the North American
material I am familiar with is not particularly up to date (though in
fairness most of Greg Wiles's stuff is still in press). I have sent her
under separate cover copies of my Little Ice Age in the Rockies paper
(about 6 months ago) and more recently the Luckman and Villalba review
paper on glacier fluctuations of the last Millennium along the PEP-1
transect. (copies are on their way to you too).
I think her mixing the discussion of ice core records and glacier histories
significantly muddies the waters on whether the term LIA should be used to
refer to a glacier or a climate event. I feel this should be addressed and
the paper needs a more effective conclusion. She must also decide whether
she wants diagrams or tables.
I don't know how she will take these criticisms but, as she is just
finishing revising the book, I would have thought she could have presented
a better synthesis. I leave it to your judgement as to how to deal with
these comments. The paper could be much better but that depends on how much
she is willing to reorganise and to some extent rethink what she has written.
Cheers
Brian
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: oops typo. disregard previous message
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:06:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Dear Tim,
best regards,
mike.
____________________________COMMENTS________________________
One additional new comment:
4) good enough
5) I really doubt that the 2000 year trend is meaningful and, unlike
the results we have shown, there is no confirmation that these 3
sites accurately reflect northern hemisphere mean temperatures
to any reasonable level during the modern era.
ftp://eclogite.geo.umass.edu/pub/mann/IPCC/nhemcompare-ipcc.gif
OR
ftp://eclogite.geo.umass.edu/pub/mann/IPCC/nhemcompare-ipcc.ps
You will see how I have aligned the series based on a 1xxx xxxx xxxx
reference period for the instrumental series, and a 20th baseline
adjustment for the alignment of all series. To me, this is the
most reasonable adjusment of the series if they are to be shown
together. It also shows the different that latitudinal variations
make EXPLICITLY by showing the difference between our
TRUE xxx xxxx xxxxlat weighted) NH annual mean temp series, and
an extratropical xxx xxxx xxxxdeg lat) average from our pattern
reconstructions, which approaches quite closely the Overpeck
et al '97 and Jones et al '98 series. Seasonal distinctions
then the key remain difference. This is, I believe, the
best approach to the comparisons, and the one I will favor
in IPCC.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Ray's coments
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:12:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear all,
Thanks again to all for working to make the final product one
we can all be happy with.
best regards,
mike
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Michael E. Mann
________Current_____________________________Starting Fall 1999_________
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences | Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Morrill Science Center | Clark Hall
University of Massachusetts | University of Virginia
Amherst, MA 01xxx xxxx xxxx | Charlottesville, VA 22903
_________________________________|_____________________________________
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] (attachments)
Phone: (4xxx xxxx xxxxFAX: (4xxx xxxx xxxx
http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike