cc: i.harris@uea.ac.uk
date: Mon Sep  3 16:56:57 2007
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: Couple of quick questions
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, "Wilby, Rob" <rob.wilby@environment-agency.gov.uk>

   But what Harry *will* be doing once the observational data is done is to make future
   scenarios from some of the AR4 runs using pattern scaling and subsequent combination with
   the updated observational data.  These could then be averaged to country-level (did you
   really mean "county" level?) but that wasn't currently planned.  That is on a NERC QUEST
   project being coordinated by Nigel Arnell, which I'm PI on and Harry's working on, hence
   Phil's cc to me.
   Cheers
   Tim
   At 16:50 03/09/2007, Phil Jones wrote:

      Rob,
         No.  What Harry is doing is just observational data - so it will run to 2006 and
      hopefully beyond.
          It is nothing to do with the AR4 runs.
          How much are you offerring..
      Cheers
      Phil
     At 10:58 03/09/2007, Wilby, Rob wrote:

     Hi Phil

     So, just to confirm, Harry is producing a high-resolution gridded data set for public
     access of IPCC AR4 runs, but will not be aggregating to county-level as before? How much
     would this extra step cost...?

     Cheers, Rob
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     From: Phil Jones [ [1]mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk]
     Sent: 28 August 2007 17:02
     To: Mike Hulme; Wilby, Rob
     Subject: RE: Couple of quick questions
      Rob, Mike,
         We won't be doing the TYN country stuff for version 3, of the high-res datasets
      which should be up soon. It has taken us far too long to do this - Harry getting
      to grips with Tim's programs.
      Cheers
      Phil
     At 14:20 28/08/2007, Mike Hulme wrote:

     Rob,

     Hmm!  Yes, there seems something fishy.  Ive checked the UK plots against what we put in
     UKCIP02 and it seems that the TYN 2.0 version is the correct one.  I cant figure out why
     TYN 3.0 is different (wrong).  Please use TYN 2.0.  Tim M is well out of circulation
     now, so it will be hard to track down.

     No plans known to me to re-do using IPCC AR4 you could check with Phil in CRU I guess,
     but I dont think there is funding.

     All the best,

     Mike


     -----Original Message-----
     From: Wilby, Rob [ [2]mailto:rob.wilby@environment-agency.gov.uk]
     Sent: 09 August 2007 10:09
     To: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk
     Subject: Couple of quick questions

     Hi Mike

     I trust that the sabbatical and book writing is progressing well?

     I'm just completing a technical report for DFID on methods/resources for constructing
     decadal climate forecasts. I was browsing the high resolution gridded data sets and came
     across a couple of things I didn't understand:

     #1. In the attached plots for Morocco the results are very different for the TYN 2.0 and
     TYN 3.0 data (e.g., DJF A2) - why is this?

     #2. The links seem to mislabelled - the country plots from TYN 3.0 are all labelled as
     originating from TYN SC 2.0 - why is this?

     Final question on a different matter - are then any plans to produce similar country
     plots using the AR4 runs?

     Hope none of the above are stupid!

     Thanks and best wishes, Rob
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