date: Mon Jul 19 16:54:19 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Fwd: Re: IAMAS session, Beijing 2005
to: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>

    Mike,
       I'll be in Beijing for IPCC in May05, so I'll have to skip this one. You could try
    asking Jurg or maybe Christian Dullo.  I don't reckon you'll need someone else though.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 08:05 19/07/2004 -0400, you wrote:

     Hey Phil,
     I forgot what your response was on this. Would you be interested in co-convening this
     session in Beijing next August? If not, any suggestions for other possible European
     co-conveners?
     thanks,
     mike
     C9: Explaining the Climates of Historic Times: Detection and Attribution of
     Anthropogenic Influences (organized by ICCL)
                 In the context of the detection and attribution of human influences on
     climate, understanding the magnitude of natural climate variability is essential. The
     instrumental record is relatively short and may be already contaminated by human
     influences. It is thus vital to gain as much information as possible about past climatic
     conditions, especially in the historical period of the past few millennia. This
     symposium invites presentations on proxy climatic reconstructions of this period on
     various timescales from interannual (e.g., from trees, historical records, ice cores,
     corals, sponges, and lake sediments, etc.) to centennial (e.g., from sediment cores and
     boreholes). Preference for oral presentation will be given both to the exploration of
     new archives and to the integration of a number of different records together,
     particularly from different proxies, and attempts to improve understanding of what
     factors might have caused the variations seen in the millennium on the
     decadal-to-century timescale. We also seek contributions that compare paleoclimate
     reconstructions with results from climate models forced with estimates of past forcing
     factors such as measures of solar output, the number and severity of
     climatically-important volcanic eruptions, land-use changes, and influences of late
     Holocene Earth-orbital changes.
     Conveners:
                 Michael E. Mann, Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall,
     University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Tel: +1-434-924-7770; Fax:
     +1-434-982-2137; [1]mann@virginia.edu
                 Daoyi Gong, Institute of Resources Science, Beijing Normal University,
     Beijing 100875, China; Tel: +86-10-6220-8144; Fax: +86-10-6220-0743; gdy@ires.cn

     Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:19:35 +0200
     From: Keith Alverson <keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch>
     Subject: Re: IAMAS session, Beijing 2005
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     To: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
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     HI Mike,
      Thanks I have penciled the session in with your name for a start. I'll try to find a
     good Chinese and will wait to hear from Phil as to whether he is interested in
     co-convening.
     Keith

     Hi Keith,
     Thanks for getting in touch about this. I should be able to help do this. I'll let Phil
     reply separately, but I suspect that IPCC duties may complicate his involvement (I'm
     laying low this next round in IPCC--I'm not accepting any lead authorship
     responsibilities)...
     Would need to give some thought about an appropriate Chinese co-convener, although I
     know there are several prominent Chinese paleoclimatologists, so this shouldn't be
     difficult.
     In the even that Phil can't do this, I would probably want to have at least one European
     co-convener.
     In the meantime, here is a prospective session description below adapted from a session
     description Phi, Jean Jouzel, and I drafted for a very similar session we've been
     running at EGS (now EGU) over the past several years...
     mike
     Explaining the Climates of Historic Times: Detection and Attribution of anthropogenic
     influences
     In the context of the detection and attribution of human influences on climate it is
     vital to assess the magnitude of natural climate variability. The instrumental record is
     relatively short and may be already contaminated by human influences. It is thus vital
     to gain as much information as possible about past climates and in the above context the
     historical period of the past few millennia may be most relevant. This symposium seeks
     presentations on proxy climatic reconstructions of this period on various timescales
     from interannual (eg from trees, historical records, ice cores, corals, sponges, and
     lake sediments etc) to century ( eg from sediment cores). Preference will be given both
     to the exploration of new archives and to the integration of a number of different
     records together, particularly from different proxies, and attempts to improve
     understanding of what factors might have caused the variations seen in the millennium on
     the decadal-to-century timescale. We also seek contributions that compare paleoclimate
     reconstructions with results from climate models forced with estimates of past forcing
     factors such as measures of solar output, the number and severity of
     climatically-important volcanic eruptions, land-use changes, and influences of late
     Holocene earth-orbital changes.
     At 11:22 AM 4/27/2004 +0200, Keith Alverson wrote:

     Dear Mike and Phil,
      I am trying to finalize the list of IAMAS climate sessions for the Assembly in Beijing,
     2-11 August 2005. I wonder if either of both of you would be willing to run the
     symposium on " Explaining the Climates of Historic Times: Detection and Attribution of
     anthropogenic influences" - similar to the one you ran successfully at the last congress
     in Sapporo. If so, I would simply need a paragraph description (attached the one from
     Sapporo - MC16). Also, if you can suggest a Chinese co-chair that would  be greatly
     appreciated.  I attach the list of ICCL symposia that I have so far for your perusal.
     Further information on the meeting, and the PAGES meeting being held alongside, is here
     ([2]www.iamas.org and www.pages2005.org). I guess that given the combined IAMAS and
     PAGES potential participants, such a session might really be quite exciting and well
     attended. I look forward to hearing from you.
     Keith
     --
     Keith Alverson
     Executive Director, IGBP-PAGES, [3]www.pages-igbp.org
     President, IAMAS International Commission on Climate, [4]www.iamas.org
     Editor, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union,
     [5]http://www.agu.org/pubs/eos.html
     PAGES International Project Office
     Sulgeneckstrasse 38
     3007, Bern, Switzerland
     Tel: +41 31 312 3133
     Fax: +41 31 312 3168
     Mobile: +41 079 705 6536

     ______________________________________________________________
                         Professor Michael E. Mann
                Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall
                           University of Virginia
                          Charlottesville, VA 22903
     _______________________________________________________________________
     e-mail: mann@virginia.edu   Phone: (434) 924-7770   FAX: (434) 982-2137
              [6]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml

--

     Keith Alverson
     Executive Director, IGBP-PAGES, [7]www.pages-igbp.org
     President, IAMAS International Commission on Climate, [8]www.iamas.org
     Editor, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union,
     [9]http://www.agu.org/pubs/eos.html
     PAGES International Project Office
     Sulgeneckstrasse 38
     3007, Bern, Switzerland
     Tel: +41 31 312 3133
     Fax: +41 31 312 3168
     Mobile: +41 079 705 6536

     ______________________________________________________________
                         Professor Michael E. Mann
                Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall
                           University of Virginia
                          Charlottesville, VA 22903
     _______________________________________________________________________
     e-mail: mann@virginia.edu   Phone: (434) 924-7770   FAX: (434) 982-2137
              [10]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml

   Prof. Phil Jones
   Climatic Research Unit        Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
   School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
   NR4 7TJ
   UK
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