cc: Henry Diaz , elena.xoplaki@giub.unibe.ch, Ricardo Garcia Herrera , Malcolm Hughes , Ercan Kayha date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:41:56 +0200 from: Juerg Luterbacher subject: Re: meeting in Turkey to: Phil Jones dear all thanks very much for the update. There are already a couple of PDSI recons for the Mediterranean going back a few centuries in time. In our recent paper by Esper et al. (GRL) we used 1000 yr tree ring data from Morocco to reconstruct PDSI back in time and found some nice evidence for teleconnections and possibly external forcing. So definitely, drought is a hot topic. Fine with us so, though we might not forget other topics such as heat waves, etc. apart from drought as well with strong impacts. I talked to Thorsten from Pages, he would be happy to join the consortium and told us that he will try to support us with a couple of thousands of Euros. For Pages a broader focus would be welcome as well. He sent me a few comments on Henrys draft. I will send them to you once I am back from Poland best wishes from both of us Juerg and Elena of Phil Jones : > > Henry, > Fine with me. I assumed it would be more about drought anyway. > > Cheers > Phil > > > At 17:22 08/10/2007, Henry Diaz wrote: > > Dear Group, > > > > After some discussions here with Malcolm and with Roger > > Pulwarty, I believe that we should consider modifying the scope of > > the meeting to highlight the role that severe and sustained drought > > has had in the Med. Basin. > > > > What I'm proposing is to include as a major focus of the meeting > > the impacts of major drought episodes/regimes in the Mediterranean > > for the period that is the focus of this meeting---namely, the last > > approx. 1,200 years---and to consider explicitly global climate > > change impacts in the future. > > > > Our present title includes the words "extreme climate events", so > > I think that shifting the focus somewhat to include a more > > hydroclimatological perspective, would not be much of a stretch. > > > > The adavantage is that drought is likely to be at the top of > > political agendas in the future (it is already...viz., Greece this > > summer!), and it might even enable additional funding support to be > offered. > > > > If you all agree, I can work that theme into the workshop > > prospectus and send it to you for review. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Henry > > > > > >==================================================================== > >>Dear all > >> > >>I hope you are very well. > >> > >>We just submitted a proposal (with the information given by Henrys > >>draft) to the ESF (MedClivar) for funding of our workshop in 2008. > >>There is not much money to expect, depending on the number of > >>applications. In any case, I have asked for 6000.- Euros. We hope > >>that ESF will support us. > >> > >>Best wishes from Bern > >> > >>Elena > > > > > >-- > > > >Dr. Henry F. Diaz > >NOAA ESRL > >325 Broadway > >Boulder, CO 80305 > >Henry.F.Diaz@noaa.gov > > Prof. Phil Jones > Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 > School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 > University of East Anglia > Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk > NR4 7TJ > UK > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ This mail was sent through IMP at http://mail.unibe.ch