cc: schlesin@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu, Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:24:51 -0600
from: Michael Schlesinger <schlesin@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu>
subject: Re: Report on Regional Climate Scenarios
to: Timothy Carter <tim.carter@vyh.fi>

Dear Tim:

It seems that you should take the parallel track of quickly 
publishing a report from your and/or Mike's institute, and then 
submitting a short paper to a peer-reviewed journal.  Since almost 
all of the peer-reviewed journals now require 2 years for 
publication, it is all-the-more important to publish the report ASAP.

Cheers,
Michael

>Dear Mike,
>
> >Last week I received courtesy of Dave Dokken a copy of your report, Interim
> >Characterizations of regional Climate and Related Changes Up To 2100
> >Associated with the Provisional SRES Marker emissions Scenarios, which I
> >had not seen before.
>
>It was remiss of me not to send this to you earlier, Mike: apologies. We
>were on a very tight schedule to get this material into the authors' hands
>via WG II TSU after the Canberra WG II authors' meeting in December. As you
>will have seen, this has been distributed ONLY to WG II Lead Authors (via
>password protected PDF) and CLAs (as hard copy), but NOT released
>generally. The intention, as we explained to you previously, was that this
>document be used for information to TAR authors only.
>
> >If it is possible, I ask that you make the following changes to this report:
> >
> >(1) On page 25, the first bullet states that "They [my simulations] derive
> >from equilibrium AGCM simulations not available through the IPCC DDC and
> >employ a regional pattern-scaling method which is still under review as a
> >journal article."
> >
> >The journal article has been accepted for publication and should have a
> >publication date of 2000, not 1999, as now referenced in the Report.  Also,
> >I would be pleased to put our simulation results in the IPCC DDC if
> >informed how to do so.  Thus, this first bullet should be eliminated.
> >
> >(2) Please change my first name on the cover page of the Report from "Mike"
> >to "Michael".
>
>Mike Hulme will contact you concerning current DDC policy on which
>simulations are to be included.
>
>Your other points can be accommodated in subsequent stages of publication
>that Mike and I would like to set in train over the next few months. As
>mentioned above, the document, as it stands, is purely for internal IPCC
>use. It cannot be released as it is, since it includes many references to
>the IPCC and because it has not been subject to the formal IPCC review
>process. This would take for ever (!) so the problem exists of how IPCC
>authors are to cite this report (this was raised in Canberra). Our current
>thinking is to undertake a two-stage publication process (with the
>co-operation of yourself and the other contributors, of course):
>
>1) To produce an institutional report (possibly from my institute), editing
>out all reference to IPCC (except for the SRES scenarios), but presenting
>the same material as is already included in the current document. This can
>be made available rather rapidly in hard copy and on a Web site.
>
>2) To submit a concise form of the methodology, plus illustrative figures,
>to a peer-reviewed journal.
>
>In this way, IPCC authors will have one, maybe two sources to cite for
>these results as they finalise TAR.
>
>Please let me know your thoughts on this strategy.
>
>Best regards and Happy New Year,
>
>Tim
>
>
>************************************************
>
>Dr. Timothy Carter
>Finnish Environment Institute
>Box 140, Keskatu 6, FIN-00251 Helsinki, FINLAND
>
>Tel: +358-9-40300-315; GSM +358-40-740-5403
>Fax: +358-9-40300-390
>Email: tim.carter@vyh.fi
>
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