cc: Keith Briffa , Phil Jones date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:56:00 -0400 from: "Michael E. Mann" subject: Re: PAGES/CLIVAR workshop - scientific program! to: Christoph Kull , Heinz Wanner Hi Christoph, Hi Christoph, Unfortunately, there is still a problem here. There might have been some miscommunication, the title of my "theme" isn't quite right. It should be: 1) Spatial patterns of past climate change, a global/large-scale view. The current title for "1" is way too restrictive, and almost none of our participates would fall under the theme "1" as you currently word it. Thanks in advance for sending out a revised email w/ the corrected title, Mike Christoph Kull wrote: >Dear all, >Time is running and I quickly would like to inform you on the scientific >program of the Wengen Workshop and some related duties... >As already announced, the scientific organizing committee decided to focus >on the listed four major themes (below), guided by Mike, Phil, Keith and >Heinz. We would like to stimulate discussions on important scientific >aspects and problems with brief (!) contributions, presented by the >participants and followed by extended discussions. >Following the presentations, it is planned that the working groups prepare >short synthesis and outlook paragraphs. Those will be discussed in the >plenum and will be used for a first draft of the planned follow-up peer >review publication of the whole group. > >Themes: >1) Methods of multiproxy reconstruction - a hemispheric/global view (Mike >Mann) >2) Forcing and modeling (Phil Jones) >3) Model/data comparison (Keith Briffa) >4) Spatial patterns of past climate change -a regional synoptic view (Heinz >Wanner) > >We now ask you to think of a topic for your short contribution and to assign >it to one of the above themes. Your contribution can be about your own >relevant results or can more generally discuss important issues you think >are blurred or not clearly understood yet. > >In order to stay focused and short, we limit the contributions to 4 slides. >This should result in oral presentations of max. 10 mins plus additional 5 >mins of immediate discussion. This allows to have short sessions with >extended discussion time afterwards. > >Please let me know a tentative title and your group preference at the latest >by May 15 - thanks a lot! > >all the best and greetings from Bern! >Cheers, >Christoph > > -- Michael E. Mann Associate Professor Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC) Department of Meteorology Phone: (814) 863-4075 503 Walker Building FAX: (814) 865-3663 The Pennsylvania State University email: mann@psu.edu University Park, PA 16802-5013 http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/faculty/mann.htm