date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:33:43 +0100 (BST)
from: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk
subject: [Fwd: Climate discussion on Friday]
to: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, c.goodess@uea.ac.uk

 Tim, Clare,
    Not that keen on tipping points!

 The big questions in my mind are:

 - follow up from UKCP09
 - keeping CRU datasets up to date (may not be new, but this keeps the CRU
 name in the forefront)
 - CRU datasets are used by many as there source of what is happening. We
 need to watch them as well. This involves some media and other responses
 to counter skeptics
 - adding PDSI to the list we monitor
 - explaining why there has been a dramatic decline in RH in the past 3
years (this is very, very new!)
 - improving the input data that enters Reanalyses (these will
  eventually be that good, that we will be monitoring extremes
  using Reanalyses within a 10-year timeframe)

 Amend and add. Probably needs a paleo one or two
 and some from our EPSRC/EU projects.

  I do think the skeptics are going to make a big effort in the
 coming year or two. Science may appear to be done and dusted,
 but there are still loads of skeptics out there.

   Can you prepare a couple of ppt, as I won't have time.


 Doesn't look as though there is an agenda coming from Bob, Trevor.

 Cheers
 Phil

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Climate discussion on Friday
From:    "Alastair Grant" <A.Grant@uea.ac.uk>
Date:    Tue, April 28, 2009 12:41 pm
To:      "'Jordan Andy Prof \(ENV\)'" <A.Jordan@uea.ac.uk>
         "'Andrew Watson'" <a.watson@uea.ac.uk>
         "'Phil Jones'" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
         t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
         "'M Hulme'" <M.Hulme@uea.ac.uk>
         "'Turner Kerry Prof \(ENV\)'" <R.K.Turner@uea.ac.uk>
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As you know, we have a roundtable discussion about climate on Friday
afternoon.  Can I ask you to think in advance about what you see as the key
research questions and unsolved problems that climate research will have to
address over the next decade?  Think about the issues that require
integration across disciplines as well as the problems that are specific to
your particular discipline. Don't confine yourself to the things that we
currently do, and please do discuss these questions with colleagues
beforehand.



Andy (Watson) - it would be helpful if you could say a bit about the
"tipping points" ideas as well as your other activities.



Please come along ready to summarise your ideas in a couple of minutes - we
aren't looking for research seminars, or presentations of past achievements,
so there is no need to prepare powerpoint presentations.  We're wanting to
do a "foresight" exercise, to identify the next big questions and how we can
contribute towards answering the big questions.    There will be space for
others to contribute their thoughts, but we did want to prompt your thinking
in advance to make sure that we tap into the thoughts of key players from
across the disciplines represented in ENV.



I'm sending this out because Jacquie is away, but it comes from us both.  If
you have any questions, please give me a call.



Alastair

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Professor Alastair Grant

Deputy Head of School

School of Environmental Sciences

University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

Phone +44 1603 592537





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