date: Fri Jun 17 16:34:14 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Fwd: Natural Climate Variability to: Kevin Trenberth Kevin, I know what EPRI is and what they've done in the past. No idea what an RFP is though. Said very busy with IPCC and it and some CCSP initiatives are looking at these issues. Point of emailing is have you heard of the person or the organization? A brief scan of their web site suggests they seem reasonable - consultants - more on the impact and energy sectors. Where they got my name from I have no idea. Cheers Phil Subject: Natural Climate Variability Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:56:02 -0600 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Natural Climate Variability Thread-Index: AcVzTK3tLzI0rnCBRxClTJn+D8YTdw== From: "Joel Smith" To: X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Flag: NO Dr. Jones: The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in the US is interested in sponsoring a workshop to review the state of knowledge on natural climate variability. EPRI is interested in this partly to help get a better handle on the attribution matter. They're not doubting the contribution of anthropogenic influences on climate. Nonetheless, as we look more at attribution, e.g., estimating the role of anthropogenic forcings at the regional scale and for specific extreme climate events, it is important to improve our understanding of natural variability. In addition, if there is movement to eventually set a global mean temperature target for climate change, then understanding the range of natural variability is even more critical. EPRI would like to put out an RFP to those who might be interested in organizing a workshop. The goal of the workshop would be to review the state of knowledge on natural climate variability, assess how well the climate models are capturing it, and define a research agenda. I am wondering if you or someone from your group might be interested in organizing such a workshop? The workshop does not need to be in the U.S. We'd be happy to send the RFP to you, when it is ready to go. I'd be happy to supply more information or call you (although I am out most of next week.) yours, Joel Smith Joel B. Smith Stratus Consulting Inc. P.O. Box 4059 Boulder, CO 80306-4059 USA Tel: 1-303-381-8218 Fax: 1-303-381-8200 jsmith@stratusconsulting.com [1]www.stratusconsulting.com 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------