From: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Fwd: new climate model runs
Date: Tue Jan  3 09:35:18 2006

     Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:28:08 -0700
     To: joos <joos@climate.unibe.ch>, rahmstorf@ozean-klima.de
     From: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
     Subject: new climate model runs
     Cc: Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>,
      Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
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     Happy New Year Stefan and Fortunat - just wanted to check in to see where things stand
     with the EMIC runs you were going to do for the revised Fig 6.10 - that is, with the new
     Lean solar forcing, and (where the published runs don't already exist) with the old Lean
     forcing. Again, the purpose of all this is to assess what difference the new solar
     forcing makes.
     Eystein and I are hoping that you've figured out the best experimental framework - e.g.,
     what other forcing series to use. It would be great if you used the same volcanic and
     trace gas series, if that is possible. I'm cc'ing this to Keith in the hope that he can
     help us make sure we're making the right decisions.
     Also, since Keith is going to be making the new figure comparing the range of obs
     climate over the last 1000 years to the range of simulated climate over the last 1000
     years (i.e., like the fig we showed in our second/Thursday plenary talk), it would be
     worth thinking if there is any way to scale the solar forcing over the entire last 1000
     years to Judith's new reduced-amplitude solar forcing. I'm not sure this is
     straightforward or not, but if it was possible, we'd have your new runs for inclusion in
     the new obs vs. simulated climate fig too - this would be helpful.
     In any case, the purpose of this email is just to see where we stand, and help keep
     things moving.
     Thanks, Peck
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