cc: "WGI TSU" , "Kristie L Ebi" date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:31:37 +0200 (CEST) from: "Pauline Midgley" subject: IPCC EM on Detection & Attribution - Request for BOG Chairs and Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.58 Dear colleagues, We are very pleased that you will be able to attend the IPCC WGI/WGII joint Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution in Geneva on 14-16 September 2009. Earlier in the week the WGI TSU sent all participants the final draft programme for the EM D&A that has been put together based on input from the Scientific Steering Committee and the WG TSUs and Co-Chairs as well as discussions at and since the AR5 Scoping Meeting in Venice (attached again for your convenience). As you will see, there will be four Break Out Group sessions for discussion and a final session on the last morning that concentrates on drafting bullets with key conclusions and an outline for the Good Practice Guidelines for approval in the final plenary session. Having considered various suggestions and options for the organization and structure of the BOGs, it has been decided to adopt a matrix structure with two distinct blocks. In Part A the BOGs will be organised by the kinds of detection and attribution issues addressed (extremes, global, regional) looking at the themes that need consideration for the Guidelines (methods and definitions, data and other requirements, forcing factors, etc.). In Part B the BOGs will be refocused and regrouped so that the discussions can home in on these themes. The agenda allows a fair amount of time for report-back and discussion during which the participants would hopefully reach consensus on the key points for inclusion in the guidance document. Each chair/rapporteur team will be asked to write a very brief summary of the discussions, highlighting key conclusions. These summaries can also be included as supporting material in the final meeting report. We would like to leave the meeting with the participants having agreed on the key conclusions in the final session. Thus we are proposing two sets of BOG Chairs and rapporteurs, based on suggestions from the SSC and from both WGs, and we would like to secure your agreement to act as BOG Chair or rapporteur as indicated below: Part A BOG1 Extreme Events: chair Neville Smith, rapporteur Sari Kovats BOG2 Global Scale: chair Nirivololona Raholijao, rapporteur Camille Parmesan BOG3 Regional Scale: chair Serge Planton, rapporteur Gino Cassassa Part B BOG1 Methods and Definitions: chair Francis Zwiers, rapporteur Daithi Stone BOG2 Data and other Requirements: chair Matilde Rusticucci, rapporteur Guy Midgley BOG3 Forcing Factors and Confounding Influences: chair Linda Mearns, rapporteur Phil Jones The BOGs are fundamental to the purpose of the Expert Meeting and will be a deciding factor in its success so we would very much appreciate it if you would agree to take on this role. I look forward to hearing from you soon, hopefully with a positive response. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me Best regards, Pauline & Kris on behalf of WG1 & WG2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Pauline M. Midgley Head, Working Group I Technical Support Unit Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change University of Bern Zaehringerstrasse 25 3012 Bern, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 631 5620 Fax: +41 31 631 5615 Email: midgley@ipcc.unibe.ch www.ipcc-wg1.unibe.ch Mobile: +41-79-378-7993 Sec: +41 31 631 5616 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\EM_D&A_Programme_Draft1.pdf"