date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:22:52 +0100
from: "Livingston, Linda" <linda.livingston@metoffice.com>
subject: Use of the Regional Climate Model.
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Dear FTI Group Members

Please see the letter below from Geoff.  Thank you

With best wishes

Linda
PA to Dr Jenkins


"David

Although we did not have much time to talk at the end of the Fast Track
Impacts meeting, I strongly support the idea of concentrating FTI efforts on
a number of vulnerable areas of the world where climate change impacts are
likely to be most significant, and doing a good job on these.

As I suggested, the key to this would be in the use of the Regional Climate
Model. With its greater spatial resolution and better representation of
extremes.  We already have RCM scenarios for Europe, Indian sub-continents
and South Africa.  Once the portable RCM is up and running we will be
creating at your request scenarios for China, and then it will be made
freely available for other countries to use for their own assessments.  Of
course, RCM scenarios can only ever be as good as the GCM driving them, but
it would be strange if we were to be deriving impacts assessments based on a
GCM at the same time as most areas of the world would be doing the same
using RCM results.

Geoff"




> Linda Livingston
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> Met. Office
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