date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:06:39 -0600
from: Tom Wigley <wigley@cgd.ucar.edu>
subject: Re: AOGCMs
to: sraper@awi-bremerhaven.de

SARAH -- QUICK REPLY, SINCE HAVE TO GO & TAKE CAT TO VET.

sraper@awi-bremerhaven.de wrote:

>Dear Tom,
>
>Here are some preliminary points re AOGCM details:
>
>The problem of drift was swept under the capet in the TAR and 
>we hardly discussed it at all. Thus the CMIP2 plot is all relative to 
>control (Figure 9.3).
>
BUT -- IS THIS CONTROL AT SAME DATES OR (EG) CONTROL INITIAL
YEARS (1-20)?    FIG CAPTION NOT CLEAR ON THIS EITHER.

>
>your note (1) is unclear to me. 
>For your DT (Def1) and DT (Def2) I read TCR (Def1), TCR 
>(Def2)
>for def 1 I do 61-80 perturbed minus 1-20 control (I think)
>for def 2 I do 61-80 perturbed minus 61-80 control
>(already by years 1-20 in perturbed some warming has occured).
>

YEAH, THIS IS WHAT I DO. GOOD.

>
>The TCRs in Table 9.1 were likely calculated by the individual 
>modelling groups and then given to Cath Senior who compiled the 
>table. Mayb there was some confusion over definistions?
>

POSSIBLE -- BUT DISTURBING.

> I gave 
>her my effective sensitivity values so these should be the same 
>as in Table 9A.1,
>

YES -- THESE CHECK.

> also I may well have given her the CCC and MRI 
>values cos I tried these models too.
>
>for (6) better to compare with heat flux into the ocean rather than 
>Kz.
>

OK - WILL CHECK. Kz WAS JUST A ROUGH THING TO CHECK.

> These are plotted for 9 models in figure 9.20 (my figure!) 
>because this includes influence of changes in upwelling whereas 
>Kz is just the bulk diffusion needed to match the ocean heat flux 
>after the upwelling has been varied.
>

GOOD POINT -- I DID LOOK AT UPWELLING, BUT NOT AT YOUR FIGURE
WHICH IS THE BEST THING.

THANX,
TOM.

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