cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk date: Thu Jun 19 13:35:50 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: RE: ARCC to: "Jim Hall" , "Clare Goodess" Jim, Clare is off the rest of this week and next. I'll send an email to someone here to make sure the costings get done for this, and arrange for Tim Osborn to make sure they get done. I'm away Mon-Thurs next week. Colin will be the best person to do most of the work, so 12 months will be fine for that. An issue here is that Colin has money through until 2010, so we may have to juggle who actually gets paid and does the work later. This is an outline bid at the moment anyway, so the project won't start until the second half of 2009 presumably. I see an email from Pam, which says we're working towards a start date of 01/06/09 and 36 months. I'll put some time down for myself, but not too much as we tend to lose most of this. Put down Clare for 9 months spread throughout the project ( 3 in each year). I'll get myself put down for 3 months, one for each year. Pro-rata these two down if they get too high. Janice Darch and/or Tim will send costings to Pam and yourself. Cheers Phil At 11:23 19/06/2008, Jim Hall wrote: Clare, Phil Thanks for your comments on the ARCADIA proposal, which I'm pulling together today. I have explicitly mentioned persistence/hot spells and have upped the UEA input accordingly (to 12 months total). Can you clarify how the various inputs will be handled. I assume: Phil: CoI with some FEC time allocation Clare: CoI researcher, with some proportion (what?) of the 12 months Colin: researcher, with the remainder of the 12 months Jim ------------------------------------------- Professor of Earth Systems Engineering Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Room 3.19 Cassie Building Newcastle University NE1 7RU UK Phone: +44 191 222 3660 (Direct) +44 191 222 6319 (Secretary) Fax: +44 191 222 6669 Email: Jim.Hall@ncl.ac.uk [1]http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/profiles2/njh57 MSc in Flood Risk Management: [2]http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cegs.cpd/flexiblelearning/frm.php Journal of Flood Risk Management: [3]http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jfrm_enhanced/ >-----Original Message----- >From: Clare Goodess [[4]mailto:C.Goodess@uea.ac.uk] >Sent: 22 May 2008 10:29 >To: Phil Jones; Jim Hall >Cc: C G Kilsby; Richard Dawson; a.watkinson@uea.ac.uk >Subject: Re: ARCC > >Hi Jim > >Many thanks for this. It looks a strong proposal with a good >stakeholder team already on board. So yes, as Phil has already >said we would like to be involved. > >I have one general question for Chris and Phil - which is >relevant to any work we might do on the weather generator as >part of ARCC, and is >- are there any issues that we need to consider in relation to >UKCIP08, particularly if the intention is to develop a >publicly-available revision of what is available in the user >interface. Maybe we need to have some informal discussion with >UKCIP, BADC and DEFRA on this issue. > >Task 1, refers to temperature and rainfall, but presumably >there is also interest in the other wgen variables such as radiation? > >In Task 2, will it be possible to look at joint probability >climate events? > >In Task 5 - would it be possible to make use of UEA Tyndall's >visualisation facilities? > >Given Phil's comments below, your second point in Task 1 >'Uncertainty/sensitivity analysis of extremes and persistence' >could be rephrased to something like 'Uncertainty/sensitivity >analysis of extremes and improved simulation of persistence'. > >I assume the UEA RA time would primarily be for Colin Harpham, >and the FEC days would be for Phil. If possible, I would like >to have some named involvement in this proposal (though would >anticipate a larger role in the critical infrastructure >proposal) - so would be good to have a little salary for me as >well (e.g., a month at most). > >Are the Hadley Centre happy to be involved as a stakeholder, >i.e., with no funding?! > >Best wishes, Clare > >At 16:53 20/05/2008, Phil Jones wrote: > >> Jim, >> I had a brief phone conversation with Chris yesterday. >Some of the >> thoughts there on adapting the WG to better simulate hot dry spells >> would fit in here. These spells would clearly be more felt in urban >> environments as opposed to the countryside, as they are >already that >> little bit warmer. Chris and I talked about getting the >drier spells >> to warm up more quickly - as happens in reality sometimes. It isn't >> just the mean temperatures. >> Here's a few examples of the UHIs for London based on max and min >> temps for DJF and JJA. >> An interesting aspect of this work which was for the GLA is that >> a) there isn't much of a trend in the differences over time (so the >> UHI isn't getting worse) and b) for max temps the outer London site >> at LHR has higher temps than LWC. >> Getting the spells better in the WG is crucial, as it is the >> spells that have the impacts. >> >> So yes to being involved if the study could incorporate >this aspect. >> >> Cheers >> Phil >> >> PS The joint CRU/Tyndall garden at Chelsea won an award >> >> [5]http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/media/news/latest_news.shtml >> >> >>At 12:41 20/05/2008, Jim Hall wrote: >> >>>Dear Clare >>> >>>In Sheffield we discussed potential joint bids to ARCC. >Attached is a >>>draft outline and spreadsheet work plan for the first of two we >>>discussed. This one deals with integrated assessment of >climate change >>>in cities, building strongly on the Tyndall Cities work, so is >>>submitted as a Tyndall Centre bid. The next, which I will get to you >>>by the end of this week, will deal with national-scale analysis of >>>critical infrastructure and will be based on a smaller consortium. >>> >>>Please can you/Phil: >>>1. let me know whether you are interested in being involved in this >>>proposal 2. let me have any comments on the outline, especially your >>>potential role in it. I recognise that the attached is twice as long >>>as permitted >>>- I will edit and compress when we are ready to submit. >>>3. take a look at the outline resource allocation. Even >though this is >>>only an outline proposal we need to generate reasonably >accurate costs. >>> >>>If you would like to give me a call to discuss, please ring me this >>>week, as I will be on holiday next week. Otherwise, can you >send your >>>comments to me by Friday 30 May. I will then get going with the Jes >>>outline proposal form and will require costing inputs from >UEA for that. >>> >>> >>>Best wishes >>> >>>Jim >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------- >>>Professor of Earth Systems Engineering Tyndall Centre for Climate >>>Change Research School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences >Room 3.19 >>>Cassie Building Newcastle University >>>NE1 7RU >>>UK >>> >>>Phone: +44 191 222 3660 (Direct) >>> +44 191 222 6319 (Secretary) >>>Fax: +44 191 222 6669 >>>Email: Jim.Hall@ncl.ac.uk >>>[6]http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/profiles2/njh57 >>> >>>MSc in Flood Risk Management: >>>[7]http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cegs.cpd/flexiblelearning/frm.php >>> >>>Journal of Flood Risk Management: >>>[8]http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jfrm_enhanced/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>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 >>-------------------------------------------------------------- >--------- >>----- >> >> >> > >Dr Clare Goodess >Climatic Research Unit >School of Environmental Sciences >University of East Anglia >Norwich >NR4 7TJ >UK > >Tel: +44 -1603 592875 >Fax: +44 -1603 507784 >Web: [9]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ > [10]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm > > > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------