date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:50:28 +0100 from: Clare Goodess subject: Re: Notes from meeting on CRU website 2005-05-19 to: Mike Salmon ,cru.internal@uea.ac.uk Hi Mike Thanks a lot for this. In terms of new information sheets, we also agreed to have one on impacts - to be led by Mick with inputs from Tom and Clare. And on a slightly separate issue, I said I would ask the new UEA science communications officer (Nicky Barrell) to come and talk to CRU. Clare At 12:20 20/05/2005, Mike Salmon wrote: >Attending: Clare, Mick, Nathan, Dimitrios, Malcolm, Gerard, Harry, DavidL, >Mike, Carol, MattS, Kate >(I think that's all, but I forgot to take a list at the time - apologies >if I missed you out) > >Apologies: Keith, Tim, DavidV, Craig > >--- Front page >There should be a "press release" for every paper CRU produces - authors >responsible. >These will be linked from the News section as they appear. >Mick suggested they could also be submitted to http://www.sciencedaily.com/ >Changes to website (eg. dataset updates) should go into News section too. >Consider providing RSS feed of News section. > >--- About CRU >Needs tweaking? Clare > >--- Data >Referred to the Data Comittee. Craig > >--- Information sheets >Many need updating: >3: UK weather and climate - Phil >4: UK Climate indicators - Clare >5: The millenial temperature record - Gerard/Phil >6: The Holocene - Keith >7: Thermohaline circulation - Tim >8: Modelling climate change - Clare/DavidV >9: Climate change scenarios - Clare >10: Sea level rise - Sarah/Mick >11: North Atlantic Oscillation - Tim >12: El Niņo and the Southern Oscillation and their influence - Malcolm >13: Volcanoes and their effect on climate - DavidV >14: Applied climatology - remove >15: Changing intensity of rainfall over Britain - Tim > >New ones to be written: >Extremes - Amanda/Clare/Ben/TomH >Abrupt Climate Change - Tim >? - Nathan >Global Dimming and Brightening - Mick >Seasonal Climate Prediction - MattS/Clare >Drought in the Sahel - AndyM/Nick/Mick > >Should also produce PDF versions for better handouts. >Do the stats include search engines? > >--- Research Projects >Deferred to subsequent meeting > >--- Staff & Students >Encourage home pages more. >Provide boilerplate homepage for new users. > >--- Academic Programmes >Carol will co-ordinate PhD pages particularly aimed towards prospective >students. > >--- Publications >Database has not been updated since December. Julie/Mike to fix. > >--- Climate Monitor Online >Is gridded visualisation in step with Data page? Mike to check/fix. >News from new Tiempo Cyberclimate NewsWatch? > >Next meeting will be to discuss the Research Projects section over a >bring-and-share lunch, date TBD. > > Dr Clare Goodess Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK Tel: +44 -1603 592875 Fax: +44 -1603 507784 Web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm