cc: Chapter 10 LAs -- Congbin Fu <fcb@ast590.tea.ac.cn>, Bruce Hewitson <hewitson@egs.uct.ac.za>, Linda Mearns <lindam@ucar.edu>, Richard Jones <rgjones@meto.gov.uk>, Hans von Storch <storch@gkss.de>, Peter Whetton <phw@dar.csiro.au>
date: Thu Sep 21 13:19:29 2000
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: conf call?
to: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen <jhc@dmi.dk>, GIORGI FILIPPO <giorgi@ictp.trieste.it>

   This convergence does not surprise me - the significance of it is another matter however.
   Mike
   At 13:12 21/09/00 +0200, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen wrote:

     Hi,
     Monday is all right with me. This time I should be contacted at my office
     though;
     ph: +45 3915 7428
     One more thing:
     Having had a closer look at the pdf files Richard has distributed, I start to
     become really worried now. The results indicate that despite many unsettled
     issues there are a consistent set of regions where models do agree on signals
     of regional climate change even over time from one set of scenarios to the
     next. This kind of convergence is new to me at least when we neglect the polar
     regions, and my interpretation is that we should start to worry about the
     changes. That is, if we believe these experts from Chap. 10 who conveyed the
     message. Remember their only hesitation about all this comes from the fact
     that the figures they have produced are all bran new!
     Guys: This material deserves a better place to be published. Why not think
     BIG. Nature is waiting for you!
     Jens
     GIORGI FILIPPO wrote:
     > Dear all
     >
     > it looks like Richard got all the data and the +/- most updated figures
     > are in the make. Now we have two main tasks at hand, the SRES BOX
     > and the update of the executive summary. Given that things got a bit
     > longer to develop than we expected, it may be  useful to have another conf
     > call to finalize these after some email exchanges. Bruce should also
     > participat eto this call, since this will determine what goes in the
     > technical summary and SPM. Given that we need a bit of time to digest the
     > data and draft a base BOX-executive summary, I cannot see the conf call
     > happenng earlier than monday. If we can finalize the stuff on monday, then
     > Bruce can easily implement it within the text. Hopefully by then all
     > remaining parts of the chapter will be done.
     >
     > So what do you say about a conf call on Monday, same time as the last one
     > (8 am Boulder time, 3 pm UTC) (sorry Peter, sorry Linda)? Given that the
     > last one went quite well, I am hopeful a conf call will help finalize
     > things more quickly.
     >
     > Linda, is this feasible?
     >
     > Cheers,   Filippo
     >
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