date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:00:33 +0100 from: Sarah Raper subject: Re: your email to: Tom Wigley Dear Tom, I would certainly like to see the PCM case results. The tuning was not exhaustive, in particular re the N/S temperature difference and the box exchanges. This should show however if it was adequate ie how much effort is it worth putting in. Will put those dates in my calendar. On 26 May 2004, at 16:36, Tom Wigley wrote: > Thanx Sarah -- I am quite pleased with the volc paper, and letting it > sit for 15 months lead to some improvements. > > I have used MAGICC to simulate all the PCM cases (solar, ghgs, etc) > and the results are generally good. I thought I might write up this > comparison across a spectrum of forcings with you as coauthor. The > main advantage of this is that it will put MAGICC at the top of the > list of simple models in terms of simulating AOGCMs. > > For August, if I come up to Norwich it will probably be over the period > Aug. 25 through 27. So can you keep these dates open for now? > > Best wishes, > Tom. > =============== > > Sarah Raper wrote: > >> Dear Tom, >> >> Well done to get the volcano paper off. I re-read the previous >> version - found a few typos (remember in introduction something a bit >> funny - looks like you have corrected that though. ) but otherwise I >> liked it. Especially like how it deals with the timescales and >> amount of information on sensitivity , critic of LG etc. >> >> Re IPCC I have heard no more as yet except that soon they will post >> up the authors on the IPCC web page. I think Jerry Meehl and Tom >> Stocker are heading up the chapter I am on. >> >> Do you remember when we looked through Myles's ppt presentation he >> showed the effect of sampling uniformly in delT2x versus the effect >> of sampling uniformly in heat flux on the backed out 20th Century >> temperature warming probability distribution? See below graph if it >> comes across. Well using our sampling he converted back to a >> distribution that looked more like the observed below but a bit >> tighter - ie slightly higher and narrower, but not bad. >> >> No plan for August yet but it's a bit early..... >> >> >> >> >