date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:02:48 +0100
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: Review request "Extreme events in current and future
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Keith - I've turned down this request to evaluate a Dutch proposal, but you 
might be interested in the outline.

Tim


>Subject: Review request "Extreme events in current and future 
>climate".  (ALWKLI/04-13)
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:14:50 +0200
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>From: "Walgreen, Mw. dr. M." <walgreen@NWO.NL>
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>Dear Dr. Osborn,
>
>All research proposals received by the Netherlands Organization for 
>Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch research council) are evaluated by 
>scholars of excellent reputation. On the basis of these assessments it is 
>determined which proposals will receive funding.  I herewith send you a 
>short summary of an ALW Climate Variability proposal submitted by Prof. 
>Dr. Ir. J.D. Opsteegh, entitled "Extreme events in current and future 
>climate".
>On behalf of the Council for Earth and Life Sciences of NWO I would like 
>to ask for your co-operation as an external referee.
>Summary of research proposal:
>In this application, we use a state-of-the-art climate model to 
>generate  extremely long ensemble integrations (up to a total length of 
>10,000 years) to estimate the 1000-year and 10,000-year return levels of 
>sea levels, wind speeds and river discharges.  Using these long records 
>reduces the uncertainty in the estimates considerably with respect to 
>using observational records of order hundred years. We will repeat the 
>analysis for the extremes in a possible future climate. In addition, we 
>will investigate the dynamics of the 'superstorms', detected earlier in a 
>simple climate model. The reality of these superstorms is confirmed by the 
>state-of-the-art model. Exploitation of the nature of these 'superstorms' 
>is of societal as well as meteorological relevance.
>
>Please forward us your reply if you (or someone else in your organization 
>is) are willing to review this proposal, in which case we will send you 
>the complete proposal and the evaluation form by electronic mail. We would 
>need to receive your review before May 3, 2004. To give an indication of 
>the amount of work: the main part of the proposal is a detailed 
>description of the research area and research plan which covers 4 pages. 
>If you can not act as a referee, I would appreciate it very much if you 
>could suggest one or two alternative reviewers.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Dr. Marianne Walgreen
>Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
>Research Council for Earth and Life Sciences (ALW)
>P.O.Box 93510
>NL-2509 AM The Hague
>The Netherlands
>phone: +31 70 3440508
>e-mail: walgreen@nwo.nl

Dr Timothy J Osborn
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK

e-mail:   t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
phone:    +44 1603 592089
fax:      +44 1603 507784
web:      http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/
sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm

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