cc: wigley@ncar.ucar.edu
date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:26:49 -0600 (MDT)
from: Tom Wigley <wigley@meeker.ucar.edu>
subject: Re: use of mag.for
to: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

Dear Mike,

At first blush, I am not happy with your project idea for the Nuffield
student. The reason is two-fold.  First, Sarah and I have already done a
lot of work on this.  We have yet to write it up, but it is described in
various Progress Reports to USDOE.  Second, it is not as easy as one might
think.  It is not correct to do a straight-forward Monte Carlo analysis.  
What we did was use a form of Latin Hypercube Sampling that I invented,
which I called something like "exhaustive fractile sampling".  I wrote a
bunch of code to carry out these analyses.

Related to these issues is one of "turf".  Sarah, in particular, would
feel that, by moving into this area, you are encroaching on her territory
--- I would feel the same way, but not so sensitively.  The point here is
that we *do* plan to write this work up eventually.  We also would be
concerned that it should be done "right" --- i.e., following our
methodology.

On the other hand, if the subject/idea is approached with tact, this
student might be able to help accelerate the publication process, if
he/she were properly directed by Sarah. Any publication that arose would,
of course, have to have Sarah and me as authors one and two --- but I am
perfectly happy to have any number of co-authors provided they contribute
substantively to the work.

One problem with this is that you'd have to use some of my code.  I can
track this down and send it to you, but the learning curve for its use
might be steep.  I will be in CRU from the end of June onwards, but I
couldn't really help until then.

I suggest, therefore, that you talk this over with Sarah. If she is happy,
then I will be too.

Cheers,
Tom



On Fri, 21 May 1999, Mike Hulme wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> A very bright 2nd year ENV undergraduate has won a Nuffield summer bursary
> to work with me on a climate project.  He would like to use your model to
> explore the effect of different emissions targets under the 4 SRES worlds,
> and express the dT and dSL as distributions following a pseudo-Monte Carlo
> analysis varying as inputs - emissions, climate sensitivity and carbon sink
> strength.
> 
> He could do this using MAGICC, but it would be more efficient for him to
> use the original FORTRAN code.  Would you be happy for him to do so?  And
> can I ask Sarah for a copy?  It would be the SAR version and not any later
> updates you and Sarah have/will made/make.  He would only use it here at
> UEA, within the context of this Nuffield project.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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