cc: wgii.bureau@earth.usgcrp.gov, ipcc@earth.usgcrp.gov, tar_reved@usgcrp.gov date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:04:36 -0400 from: nleary@usgcrp.gov (Neil Leary) subject: First Action Items from CLA Meeting to: tar_cla@usgcrp.gov Dear CLAs, This is the first in a series of follow-up action items from our recent CLA meeting. A response is requested from you by JUNE 9. At the CLA meeting it was agreed that, for the 1st-order draft of the WG2 report, we need to do a better job of cross-chapter coordination and review and that cross-chapter liasons/reviewers need to be identified. Also, the WG2 Bureau endorsed chapter 18 and 19's requests for information from other chapters to assist them with synthesis of climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities. It was agreed at the meeting that responding to these requests is critically important to the success of these chapters and that, for the chapter 19 request, a CLA from each chapter should be designated to take responsibility for responding. (The chapter 18 request for information will go directly to LAs as well as CLAs and coordination of responses by CLAs is not required.) I have two requests to get these processes moving. 1. Please inform me of the name of the CLA for your chapter who will take responsibility for coordinating, consolidating and delivering your chapter's response to the chapter 19 request for information. The chapter 19 CLAs will be revising their information request shortly and I will transmit their revised request to the designated CLAs. 2. Please provide me with a list of key topics in your chapter needing review by authors from other chapters of WG2, or authors from other Working Groups. For each topic, identify the chapter(s) and Working Groups from which authors should be recruited to review your chapter's treatment of that topic. If there are specific authors you hope will review a topic in your chapter, please identify them. I ask that you respond to these requests by JUNE 9. I will put together a consolidated list of cross-chapter topics, circulate to all authors, and ask authors to identify the topics/chapters that they will review. I may ask for your assistance in encouraging authors in your chapters to sign up for this responsibility. I will also ask for your recommendations of external reviewers at that time. At the CLA meeting it was also agreed that, if possible, an interim draft of each chapter would be produced and made available within WG2 in mid-July. The purpose is to provide an opportunity to address cross-chapter inconsistencies and omissions prior to distribution of the 1st draft for external expert review. This can be an extremely valuable exercise - but it is a voluntary one. If/when you have a revised draft, please post it to the ftp site and send a broadcast to all authors and review editors announcing availability of the draft and the file name(s). If only some portions of the interim draft are revised from the 0-order draft, identify the sections that have changed in your broadcast. The broadcast aliai are , , and . Dave Dokken previously sent you instructions on how to write to the ftp site. If you need to have the instruction resent, contact Dave. My suggestion is that you post revised drafts as Word 6.0 documents with a ".doc" extension. Anyone needing a different file format can contact the TSU for assistance. It was a pleasure to see those of you who were able to attend the CLA meeting. I hope that you all had safe and uneventful trips home. Kind regards, Neil Neil A. Leary, Ph.D. Head, Technical Support Unit IPCC Working Group II 400 Virginia Avenue SW, Suite 750 Washington, DC 20024 USA General number: 1 202 314-2225 Direct number: 1 202 314-2224 Fax: 1 202 488-8678 email: nleary@usgcrp.gov or ipcc@usgcrp.gov