date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:02:48 +0100 from: Tim Osborn subject: Fwd: Review request "Extreme events in current and future to: Keith Briffa Keith - I've turned down this request to evaluate a Dutch proposal, but you might be interested in the outline. Tim >Subject: Review request "Extreme events in current and future >climate". (ALWKLI/04-13) >Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:14:50 +0200 >X-MS-Has-Attach: >X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: >Thread-Topic: Review request "Extreme events in current and future >climate". (ALWKLI/04-13) >Thread-Index: AcQl5ncummA69gobRhaFq3BxzLXPKw== >From: "Walgreen, Mw. dr. M." >To: >X-UEA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information >X-UEA-MailScanner: Found to be clean > >Dear Dr. Osborn, > >All research proposals received by the Netherlands Organization for >Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch research council) are evaluated by >scholars of excellent reputation. On the basis of these assessments it is >determined which proposals will receive funding. I herewith send you a >short summary of an ALW Climate Variability proposal submitted by Prof. >Dr. Ir. J.D. Opsteegh, entitled "Extreme events in current and future >climate". >On behalf of the Council for Earth and Life Sciences of NWO I would like >to ask for your co-operation as an external referee. >Summary of research proposal: >In this application, we use a state-of-the-art climate model to >generate extremely long ensemble integrations (up to a total length of >10,000 years) to estimate the 1000-year and 10,000-year return levels of >sea levels, wind speeds and river discharges. Using these long records >reduces the uncertainty in the estimates considerably with respect to >using observational records of order hundred years. We will repeat the >analysis for the extremes in a possible future climate. In addition, we >will investigate the dynamics of the 'superstorms', detected earlier in a >simple climate model. The reality of these superstorms is confirmed by the >state-of-the-art model. Exploitation of the nature of these 'superstorms' >is of societal as well as meteorological relevance. > >Please forward us your reply if you (or someone else in your organization >is) are willing to review this proposal, in which case we will send you >the complete proposal and the evaluation form by electronic mail. We would >need to receive your review before May 3, 2004. To give an indication of >the amount of work: the main part of the proposal is a detailed >description of the research area and research plan which covers 4 pages. >If you can not act as a referee, I would appreciate it very much if you >could suggest one or two alternative reviewers. > >Thank you in advance. >Yours sincerely, > >Dr. Marianne Walgreen >Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) >Research Council for Earth and Life Sciences (ALW) >P.O.Box 93510 >NL-2509 AM The Hague >The Netherlands >phone: +31 70 3440508 >e-mail: walgreen@nwo.nl Dr Timothy J Osborn Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm