cc: Kevin Trenberth date: Thu Jun 2 15:43:46 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Ch 3 - Current Status to: "Parker, David (Met Office)" , b.soden@miami.edu Brian, I can incorporate these. Currently going through your part of 3.4. You have made it shorter, but not by much - maybe a page in total ! Cheers Phil At 15:12 02/06/2005, Parker, David (Met Office) wrote: Brian Thanks. You've made it shorter: just a few comments. Page 29 lines 51-52: with satellite observations over the tropical oceans (Allan et al., 2002) although ***THE amplitude and structures OF THE VARIABILITY *** are unrealistic (Trenberth et al., 2005) Page 33: lines 11-13 and 49-50 say approximately the same thing. Page 36 lines 14-18: The changes in SW measured by ERBS Edition 3 are larger ***THAN*** the clear-sky flux changes due to humidity variations (Wong et al., 2000) or anthropogenic radiative forcing (Chapter 2).If correct, the large increase ***DECREASE???*** in reflected SW with little change in outgoing LW imply a reduction in tropical low cloud cover over this period. However, specific information on cloud radiative forcing is not available from ERBS after 1989 and, as noted in Section 3.4.3, surface datasets suggest an increase in low cloud cover over this period. The last one is the only important one! Regards David On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:58, Brian Soden wrote: > Here are my revisions to section 3.4 > > Phil Jones wrote: > > > > >> Dear All, > > > > Late on Friday (3rd) UK time, I'll send around the latest > > version of the Chapter. Over the last > > 10 days I've interacted with a number of you and can do a little more > > before Friday. I will > > be away June 5-10, so Kevin will take over again next week. > > I have been through the whole chapter except for sections 3.3, > > most of 3.4 (except 3.4.1) > > , 3.8 and 3.9. > > > > 3.2 just requires comments from all of you later. It is in a > > near-finished state for FOD > > submission. > > > > 3.5-3.7. All that Jim, Roxana, Panmao, Matilde have sent is in, > > and I've been through > > these 3 sections extensively over the last few days. > > > > I've also been through the Appendices and Boxes (except for the > > regional one that goes > > with 3.8). Also I'll get to the CQs. I have incorporated comments > > sent from Fatima last > > weekend. > > > > In addition to this, I've updated about 20 of the references with > > final pages. I see that Jim > > and Roxana have also begun doing this, so forward when you know. Best > > way is to send > > a quick email like David did today giving volume and page numbers of > > papers when you > > see them out. > > > > When you get the draft, can you hold off sending quick comments as > > Kevin isn't back > > till Tuesday. Emphasis needs to shift next week to 3.3 and 3.8. I'm > > expecting Brian's > > 3.4 later this week. > > > > Finally, I have two folders on my PC with > > > > 1. About 20 pdfs of papers that will not be out by Aug 12 that we > > refer to. If there are > > ones in your section that you have can you send me these? > > > > 2. All the latest versions of Figures. This is mainly 3.2 and 3.5-3.7 > > so far and one or two > > others. For 3.2 I have .eps and .png. EPS are the main requirement, > > as we can make > > easily displayable ones from this format. Getting the figures is > > more urgent that the text. > > > > Cheers > > Phil > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- David E Parker A2_W052 Met Office FitzRoy Road EXETER EX1 3PB UK email: david.parker@metoffice.gov.uk Tel: +44-1392-886649 Fax: +44-1392-885681 Global climate data sets are available from [1]http://hadobs.org 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------