cc: wg1-ar4-ch06@joss.ucar.edu
date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:52:29 -0400
from: "W.R Peltier" <peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca>
subject: Re: [Wg1-ar4-ch06] Emailing: IPCC6.3.3FOD.doc
to: Valerie.Masson@cea.fr

<x-flowed>
Hi Valerie,

      Thanks for your input----I'll attempt to integrate your comments into 
the next draft of the sea level section.

Cheers
Dick






At 05:15 AM 30/06/2005, Valrie Masson-Delmotte wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>A few comments on Dick's text
>
>- title : should be modified to "sea level changes during THE LAST glacial 
>interglacial cycle" (mainly discussed here)
>- structure : I would suggest to focus on specific questions maybe by time 
>scale, more explicitely
>- a few typos (.. instead of ., Cuffy instead of Cuffey)
>- as for sea level changes inferred from the conventional approach I would 
>suggest to refer to Waelbroeck et al QSR 2002 which also takes into 
>account the effects of deep water temperatures on the interpretation of 
>benthic foram 18O for sea level reconstructions
>- a good review paper for the last interglacial period sea level is found 
>in Muhs et al Quat Res 2002
>- should we be as precise as one decimeter for the LGM sea level change? I 
>thought that the uncertainty was in terms of meters.
>- the argument about the Holocene sea level is also given in the Holocene 
>section (6.4.1.7), should it disappear from there?
>- the sentence starting by "a recent review..." is strange because the 
>paper cited for a methodology applied by others is older than the review
>- for the Greenland contribution to sea level I think that the most 
>accurrate constraint comes from the North GRIP 2004 paper (Cuffey and 
>Marshall and Tarasov and Peltier had several scenarios where the Greenland 
>ice sheet was forced by estimated climate histories based on Vostok for 
>the Eemian; the NGRIP data enable to have a local climate scenario and 
>discriminate among the various modelling sensitivity studies, which, by 
>the way, did not have the large basal geothermal heat flow derived from 
>the NorthGRIP borehole T profile).
>- the 6 line long sentence starting by "this is an important thought 
>still..." (second page, middle part) could be separated in several sentences.
>
>Valrie.
>
>W.R Peltier a crit :
>
>>Dear Colleagues,
>>      This is the first of Section 6.3.3 for the FOD. There are still a 
>> few rough spots that I will sort out tomorrow morning but I thought that 
>> you should see the direction in which I was heading. I decided to keep 
>> (but have considerably revised) the discussion on the contamination of 
>> the rate of rsl rise measured using the T/P satellite system by the GIA 
>> process. This result is now being widely used by the community and is 
>> generally seen to an important contribution of the paleo-climate 
>> community since the TAR. The new Figure I've produced could easily be 
>> moved into Chapter 5 together with the paragraph describing it. Since I 
>> have not heard anything back from Willebrand on how our Chapter 5 
>> colleagues intend to deal with this issue I believe that we should 
>> include it in this section of our chapter together with the Figure and 
>> leave it to the next stage of discussion to decide finally how the AR4 
>> will handle it. The new Figure on this will be forwarded tomorrow. I 
>> believe that you all have the Figure previously produced describing the 
>> variation of sea level from the Eemian interglacial to the present.
>>Dick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>IPCC6.3.3FOD.doc
>>
>>
>>
>>Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent 
>>sending or receiving certain types of file attachments.  Check your 
>>e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled.
>>
>>Prof W.R Peltier
>>Dept of Physics, University of Toronto
>>60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
>>Tel (416)-978-2938   Fax (416)-978-8905
>>email peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Wg1-ar4-ch06 mailing list
>>Wg1-ar4-ch06@joss.ucar.edu
>>http://www.joss.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wg1-ar4-ch06
>
>
>

Prof W.R Peltier
Dept of Physics, University of Toronto
60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
Tel (416)-978-2938   Fax (416)-978-8905
email peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca



_______________________________________________
Wg1-ar4-ch06 mailing list
Wg1-ar4-ch06@joss.ucar.edu
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wg1-ar4-ch06
</x-flowed>
