date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:54:05 +0100 from: Eystein Jansen subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Millennium Simulations to: Tim Osborn Hi Tim, We are playing with putting together and analyzing marine records for the last 1200 years (also using the Osborn Briffa Science 2006 methodology). In this work it would be good to look at simulations and forcing series. Richard Telford here does this work, and I would like for him to use the same series both for forcing and NH mean T from the simulations as they appear in the IPCC report. Thus, would it be possible for you to send me the series you used for generating the forcings/simulations last millennium figure, or let me know if they can be downloaded from somewhere. Many thanks for your help Cheers Eystein >Dear all, > >I have redone all plots for the two alternative >baseline periods - see attached PDF. Please >look at them on the screen as well as printing >them, because with some printers you can hardly >see the paler greys and the yellow lines whereas >they seem quite bright on my screen. > >Page 1 is 1500-1899. Page 2 is 1961-1990. > >Mine and Keith's opinion: > >1500-1899 looks better for panels (a), (c) and >(d). They look equally as good for panel (c). >For panel (e) we are unsure and below are some >arguments for and against. > >[Obviously I can tidy up the 1961-1990 version a >bit more, in terms of labelling etc., though it >is clearly going to be tricky to find gaps for >the key and titles and the vertical scale of >panel (d) would need to be changed/extended a >bit and then wouldn't match the scale I used for >panel (e). So 1961-1990 is a bit harder to get >everything looking good and consistent.] > >At first we thought that the new 1961-1990 >version of panel (e) looked better for the >reason that there is clearer separation between >the "all forcings" (thick lines) and the >"natural-only forcings" (thin lines) in the >early 20th century. > >On closer inspection, however, we then were >swayed back to the 1500-1899 version of panel >(e), because the reason for the clearer >separation of the "Nat" and "All" runs in >1961-1990 version is that the stronger solar >forcing runs (dark and pale blue and green) are >pushed downwards. But pushing them downwards >means that during the "Little Ice Age" period >these runs (especially the dark and pale blue >ones) are clearly in the bottom part of the >range of the reconstructions relative to >1961-1990 - and the question is why should we >say that the "Nat" runs cannot capture the first >phase of 20th century warming when we have >started them from cooler conditions, purely on >the basis of the amount of warming achieved in >the other runs by the time the reference period >is reached. This seems harder to defend. It >relates back to my earlier comments about (1) >using as long a reference period as possible; >and (2) thinking about climate changing from the >relative stable period, rather than going >backwards from the present period with its >strong transient changes. > >Views please? > >If the decision is made to go with 1961-1990, >then Keith suggests sticking with 1500-1899 for >panels (a)-(d) as before, and make the new EMIC >runs (currently panel (e)) into a stand-alone >figure with 1961-1990 baseline. > >Views required urgently! > >Cheers > >Tim > > >Attachment converted: Nebbiolo:modelsA-E_2versions.pdf (PDF /«IC») (00ADAE95) >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 -- ______________________________________________________________ Eystein Jansen Professor/Director Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Dep. of Earth Science, Univ. of Bergen Allégaten 55 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY e-mail: eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no Phone: +47-55-583491 - Home: +47-55-910661 Fax: +47-55-584330