From: Gabi Hegerl To: "Bamzai, Anjuli" Subject: RE: Meeting Jan 21-23 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:51:24 +0100 Cc: Myles Allen , claudia tebaldi , Knutti Reto , "Stott, Peter" , "Zwiers,Francis [Ontario]" , Tim Barnett , Hans von Storch , Claudia Tebaldi , Phil Jones , David Karoly , Toru Nozawa , Ben Santer , Daithi Stone , Richard Smith , Nathan Gillett , Michael Wehner , Doug Nychka , Xuebin Zhang , Chris Miller , Tom Knutson , Tim Delsole , Susan Solomon , "Jones, Gareth S" , Tara Torres Hi all, I assume this is general interest, not IDAG meeting - I think the meeting would be a bit too big and complicated if we would try to resolve IPCC type issues - on the other hand, involving Chris Field and maybe Tom Stocker may be an interesting way to vent the scientific issues in a relaxed setting. But I would suggest to avoid agency type things - can be convinced otherwise if you feel strongly. we do have a limited budget, too! Gabi Quoting "Bamzai, Anjuli" : > Myles, > > The Dept of State is the U.S. lead on IPCC, Conference of Party > discussions, etc. USAID does the bulk of adaptation assistance at the > international level. At the national level, there are various CCSP > agencies, e.g. Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Interior, EPA, who are more > on the 'application' side of the CCSP. > > I'd need to ask someone in those agencies on how they are approaching > the issues you raise. Perhaps Chris Miller knows someone there...? > > Programs such as NOAA Climate Change Data Detection (CCDD), and DOE > Climate Change Prediction Program(CCPP) focus almost exclusively on > IPCC WG I type of questions. > > Anjuli > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Myles Allen [mailto:allen@atm.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:00 AM > To: claudia tebaldi; Gabi Hegerl > Cc: Knutti Reto; Stott, Peter; Zwiers,Francis [Ontario]; Tim Barnett; > Hans von Storch; Claudia Tebaldi; Phil Jones; David Karoly; Toru Nozawa; > Ben Santer; Daithi Stone; Richard Smith; Nathan Gillett; Michael Wehner; > Doug Nychka; Xuebin Zhang; Bamzai, Anjuli; Chris Miller; Tom Knutson; > Tim Delsole; Susan Solomon; Jones, Gareth S; Tara Torres > Subject: RE: Meeting Jan 21-23 > > Hi All, > > That is a very good idea indeed. I was talking to Tom Stocker last week, > arguing that resolving the differences in the definition of attribution > between WG1 and WG2 was going to be one of the key challenges for AR5, > particularly as attribution of impacts becomes a live topic as countries > start to make the case for adaptation assistance. How about we invite > the co-Chair of WG1 along as well? > > If we are going to invite Chris Field, we should definitely also invite > someone from the "double attribution" community, or it will seem a bit > like WG1 lecturing to the co-Chair of WG2. Any suggestions, David? > > Anjuli, has anyone in the US State Department (or whichever department > will handle this) started addressing the question of how the US > government will distinguish "impacts of climate change" from > "vulnerability to natural climate variability" in allocating resources > for adaptation assistance? If anyone has even started thinking about > this problem, it would be very interesting to hear from them to know > what questions they are likely to need answering. We could also try and > find out if anyone in the European Commission is worrying about this. > > Regards, > > Myles > > -----Original Message----- > From: claudia tebaldi [mailto:claudia.tebaldi@gmail.com] > Sent: 13 October 2008 20:46 > To: Gabi Hegerl > Cc: Myles Allen; Knutti Reto; Stott, Peter; Zwiers,Francis [Ontario]; > Tim Barnett; Hans von Storch; Claudia Tebaldi; Phil Jones; David Karoly; > Toru Nozawa; Ben Santer; stoned@csag.uct.ac.za; Richard Smith; Nathan > Gillett; Michael Wehner; Doug Nychka; Xuebin Zhang; Bamzai, Anjuli; > Chris Miller; Tom Knutson; Tim Delsole; Susan Solomon; Jones, Gareth S; > Tara Torres > Subject: Re: Meeting Jan 21-23 > > Hi Gabi et al. > > I wonder if we could try to get Chris Field, who is going to be the > chair of working group 2 for AR5...I don't know how likely it is to get > him but it may be interesting to get his perspective on what was done in > AR4 WG2 and what he would like to see in AR5 WG2. > > c > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gabi Hegerl > wrote: >> Hi IDAG people, >> >> Its time to start planning our next IDAG meeting in detail. A > provisional >> coarse agenda is attached. Please feel free to email me suggestions >> to improve/update this, and if there is a topic you would > love >> to see covered but that isn;t please get in touch as well. >> Also, we should have one topic related to the impacts review paper > that is >> to be written in year 2 of the grant. Therefore, if you have a >> suggestion of a guest that would help us elucidate the > challenges in >> impact attribution but also to move forward on this, please let me >> know! >> Tara Torres from UCAR (tara@ucar.edu) will help us to plan the > meeting. >> Also, I hope to hire a student helper at Duke to get our meeting > webpage >> going, keep track of agenda items etc, but please bear with me and >> tolerate a bit of chaos before we have succeeded with this! >> >> What I need from you is to please >> - let me know if you can make it, and what you would vaguely like to > speak >> about (you can do the first now and postpone the second) >> - get in touch with Tara to book your travel - ideally, towards the > end of >> October / or in early November (she is a bit buried right now) >> - get in touch with me when you have suggestions, or want to bring > somebody >> >> Gabi >> >> -- >> Dr Gabriele Hegerl School of GeoSciences The University of Edinburgh >> Grant Institute, The King's Buildings West Mains Road EDINBURGH EH9 >> 3JW Phone: +44 (0) 131 6519092, FAX: +44 (0) 131 668 > 3184 >> Email: Gabi.Hegerl@ed.ac.uk >> >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> > > > > -- > Claudia Tebaldi > Research Scientist, Climate Central > http://www.climatecentral.org > currently visiting IMAGe/NCAR > PO Box 3000 > Boulder, CO 80305 > tel. 303.497.2487 > > > > -- Gabriele Hegerl School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=1613 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.