date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:29:15 +0100
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: Re: ECHO-G solar forcing
to: "Keith Briffa" <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Here's the response to my query about whether they'd got the solar forcing 
wrong in ECHO-G.  It seems they're happy they got it right.

Tim

>Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:49:16 +0200
>From: Jesus Fidel Gonzalez Rouco <fidelgr@fis.ucm.es>
>Subject: Re: ECHO-G solar forcing
>To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
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>Dear Tim,
>dont worry I understand your motivation.
>It is correct that the solar forcing is rescaled to the variance of Lean 
>et al. There was only one factor applied to the Crowley data and that was 
>the scaling for the Lean et al.
>The curve that was selected for that was the BE10/lean splice in Fig2 from 
>Crowley 2000.
>As you indicate, the solar irradiance is the input to the model which 
>reads solar constant values each year, not forcing. The values that are 
>used to force the model are those in
>my web page for the model:
><http://chubasco.fis.ucm.es/~fi/for_wpa01/for_wpa01.html>http://chubasco.fis.ucm.es/~fi/for_wpa01/for_wpa01.html
>
>you can have a look at any of the forced integrations. For innstance:
>Forced run: Erik1 (a01)
>
>Those plots specify actually the exact values that go into the model.
>Hope this is of help? let me know if you need more info. You can also 
>discuss it with Edu, who actually prepared the forcings... of course I 
>will  be glad to
>provide you with any info that might be of help
>Sad about rumorology   :-(
>greetings
>Fidel
>
>Tim Osborn wrote:
>>Dear Fidel,
>>
>>Keith Briffa, with some input from me, is preparing a section on the 
>>climate of the last 2000 years for the next draft of the IPCC 
>>Paleoclimate chapter.
>>
>>We are including some model simulations and forcings from experiments of 
>>the last 1000 years, and would like to include the ECHO-G Erik run.
>>
>>We are concerned that some colleagues that we have met at various 
>>meetings have the impression (possibly from Mike Mann?) that you did the 
>>solar forcing "wrong" in this simulation - with variations that are 
>>unrealistically strong.
>>
>>I already know from the supplementary information in von Storch et al. 
>>(2004) that you scaled the Crowley (2000) solar irradiance history to 
>>have the same variance as the Lean et al. history, but the "rumours" talk 
>>about much bigger differences than simply this rescaling.  Some have 
>>suggested that the conversion from solar irradiance to forcing [ 
>>*0.25*(1-albedo) ] was forgotten.
>>
>>Knowing a little about running GCMs, I don't think this can be true 
>>because I think you don't put this in as a radiative forcing, but instead 
>>just vary the solar "constant" - then there is no conversion from 
>>irradiance to forcing, and it can't be forgotten!
>>
>>But Keith has asked me to double check with you anyway!
>>
>>The attached file is an early draft of the figure, including panel (b) 
>>showing the solar forcing (converted to a forcing by *0.25*(1-albedo), 
>>and then smoothed with a 30 year filter).
>>
>>It shows very little difference between ECHO-G forcing and the 
>>others.  Does this figure look right to you?
>>
>>Many thanks in advance for your checking - and sorry to question your 
>>capability (I just was asked to check)!
>>
>>Best wishes
>>
>>Tim
>>Dr Timothy J Osborn
>>Climatic Research Unit
>>School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
>>Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
>>
>>e-mail:   <mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
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>><http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm>http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm
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Dr Timothy J Osborn
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK

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