date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:37:26 -0000
from: Mick Kelly <m.kelly@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Proposal
to: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

Mike

Comments on the proposal...

Think you should spell out at the start that climate change=the potential
change in climate resulting from etc just in case you get a dubm reviewer.

Tiempo ref:  I'm assuming that we are in the land of no reference to actual
institutes here so the following wording will have to do.

Original wording...
"The final package will also include the contents of an electronic
information service on climate change aimed at the developing nations (and
funded separately from this proposal). "
Change to...
"The final package will also include the contents of an electronic bulletin
and related information on climate change aimed at the developing nations
produced by Partner A (and funded separately from this proposal through
Partner B). "
Where A=CRU and B=SEI.
I leave you to translate the A and B to 1, 2 or 3.

I'd rather not put in more than this as we don't know for sure that we have
money to expand the current Web site (just the bulletin pretty much) at
present so risky to get too precise about what we're adding to the current
proposal.

2.2.2: Four components: When you describe the four components, the emphasis
now on son of SCENGEN as a GCM viewer (which I think is right) does mean
that this account doesn't really spell out the scenario development angle. 
This point only comes in in the last para as an aside.  Just needs a short
para at the end of the desc of component three something like..
"In combination, component 1, 2 and 3 enable the user to develop
time-dependent estimates of future climate change for their region based on
the latest technical information and taking full acount of scientific
uncertainies."

You also need an intro phase saying "Component one is..." up top.

2.2.3: trails not trails!

Schedule:  I'd be careful about committing to a Web site too early.  It's
easy to produce a useless Web site but would take longer to create anything
of value.  I'd leave this as a commitment till the point you have the first
CD trial version.  You can do it earlier but you don't want a very visible
front for the project looking second-rate, and you won't have much too
offer by month 3.

Deliverables:  I think that your trial version is actually the alpha
version following standard software release terminology.  Not important but
Mike S has figured this out so you could ask him if you want to be precise.

Partner table: Dr Nguyen Huu Ninh (Huu missing)

My description:

Dr Mick Kelly is a Reader in CRU and the Centre for Social and Economic
Research on the Global Environment at UEA and is the editor of Tiempo, a
bulletin and related electronic information service on global warming and
developing nations.  He is the Course Director of the MSc in Climate Change
run by CRU and manages a collaborative project between UEA and the
International Institute for Environment and Development concerning support
for developing country activities on climate change.  His major research
project, at present, is an interdisciplinary study of vulnerability to
climate change in Vietnam.

BCAS: Description sent earlier.  I'd add the material I sent on Atiq to the
general description of BCAS then you have the few lines on the actual
indvidual who's the contact point.  Unfortunately I don't have any
references to his work so I think you'll just have to live with a blank
here unless BCAS deliver.  Check the IPCC report as you could include that
if nothing else.

ACTS: Just so you know we have multiple corporate links, Siri is going to
be based at ACTS during her fieldwork over the next couple of years.  You
probably picked this up as Kate from CSERGE, Siri's other supervisor, was
at ACTS when you were liaising with them over Xmas. 

Reference to Tiempo towards end of proposal:
Original...
The project will take advantage of a parallel initiative being undertaken
in the Climatic Research Unit concerning the provision of climate change
information through the Internet based on the quarterly publication,
Tiempo, [Mick - please advise]
Change to..
The project will take advantage of a parallel initiative being undertaken
in the Climatic Research Unit concerning the provision of climate change
news, information, comment and resources through the Internet based on the
quarterly publication, Tiempo.  Production of the bulletin is supported by
the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency through the
Stockholm Environment Institute. During 1997, it is planned that the
existing Tiempo Web site will be expanded to include additional material
and resources alongside the electronic version of the bulletin.

Then new sentence for ECLAT.  I'd prefer you didn't cut the above in any
way as the wording is designed to reflect the fact that we don't have
formal confirmation of funding for th expanded Web site as yet. 

OK - that's all.  I've limited my comments as I know how tight time is. 
I'd suggest you read through the introductory few paragraphs and make sure
it's clear that the overall point of the project is to address the issue of
global warming.  I think you maybe get into the specifics of what's being
proposed a little too quickly for a non-climate reviewer.  Equally, you
might think about including the usual flow-chart diagram which shows how
these aspects of climate study (emisisons scenarios, gas cycle models,
global climate mdels and GCMs, climate scenarios) relate to the whole.  Or
simply say that climate scenario development is needed as a basis for
impact stsudies and impact studies are needed as they are the gauge of the
overall significance of the climate problem, and refer to the objective of
the FCCC.

Time is too tight for me to give you draft text on these general points I'm
afraid.  Setting up the fieldwork in Vietnam I'm responsible for in
February and need to get various OKs from Ninh in Hanoi by the weekend.  As
this fieldwork is mainly social science and I'm flying solo on this without
Neil, getting the planning right is of some importance!

Cheers
Mick

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