date: Tue Sep 5 16:38:54 2006 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: Access to ECHO-G data to: David Preece Hi David, I'm just back from 2 weeks holiday and catching up with emails. Thanks for yours which arrived just as I was about to leave. Yes you can use the ECHO-G data for your PhD work. Access is similar to the HadCM3 data, but the username/password are different: soapech od2004 and you can get them from here: [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/projects/soap/data/model/echog.htm Note that the ECHO-G simulation has some strong temperature trends in the early centuries because it was started from a relatively warm initial state and gradually cooled down, and also has strong warming in the last 100 years probably because they did not include the cooling effects of anthropogenic tropospheric sulphate aerosols, though these would have affect the northern hemisphere far more than S. Africa, so perhaps not so much problem for you? These two issues were explained in the attached paper. Best wishes and good luck with your use of the data, Cheers Tim At 16:15 17/08/2006, you wrote: Dear Dr. Osborn, I'm a PhD student investigating decadal variability in southern Africa. I'm already using some of the SOAP project's HadCM3 data and Simon Tett's experiments, but I would like to try and validate some of the work with multi-model comparisons. Is it possible to arrange access to ECHO-G long integrations under the SOAP page, and how would I go about making this arrangement? Regards, David Preece -- David Preece Department of Geography, UCL [2]www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~dpreece