cc: mas@noc.soton.ac.uk ,"Janice Darch" <J.Darch@uea.ac.uk>
date: Mon Sep  8 12:27:57 2008
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: NERC/T/S/2002/0040 - extension request re. final report
to: snbl@nerc.ac.uk 

   To
   Sasha Leigh
   Natural Environment Research Council
   Polaris House
   North Star Avenue
   Swindon
   SN2 1EU
   Dear Sasha
   following our initial phone conversation this morning, I am now following up with a more
   formal request for an extension  - see below.
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   Please can we formally request a 2-month extension to the deadline for submission of the
   final report of our NERC (Rapid Climate Change) grant NER/T/S/2002/00440 "Quantitative
   applications of high-resolution late Holocene proxy data sets: estimating climate
   sensitivity and thermohaline circulation influences". The report submission deadline is
   29th September 2008. We would like to request an extension of this deadline until the last
   day of November 2008.
   The reason/justification for this request is that it would allow us to complete another
   suite of energy balance model simulations that we are currently undertaking in order to
   better apply a maximum likelihood approach for constraining climate model parameters based
   on comparison with pseudo-proxy and actual temperature reconstructions.  We undertook
   related model simulations during spring 2008 but have subsequently decided that the
   analysis will benefit from additional model simulations.  Tim Osborn and myself are
   currently making these runs but we envisage another month or so after which time we will
   need to analyse the results.  We are very anxious to incorporate at least preliminary
   findings of these runs in the final project report.  It is for this reason that we are
   requesting a 2-month extension.
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   I am also cc'ing this request to Dr. Meric Srokosz for information (I understand that he is
   prepared to sanction this request) and Dr. Janice Darch (our Research Administrator - who
   will forward it to the relevant parties in the UEA Research Office).
   with thanks
   Keith

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   Professor Keith Briffa,
   Climatic Research Unit
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

   Phone: +44-1603-593909
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