[Nsa] Reminder: Mtg. of the Climate and Human Systems Project

[boneill at ucar.edu]

Hi all,
This is a reminder that the Climate and Human Systems Project will be
meeting again tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2 p.m. in the Damon Room. I'll start
with a brief update on where things stand with abstracts, participants,
etc., and then we'll hear from Claudia Tebaldi, Steve Sain, Ben Sanderson,
and Keith Oleson, each briefly reporting on plans for how they will be
addressing various aspects of extremes in their work. The aim is to make
the approaches as comparable as possible, ensure they are consistent with
the goals of the overall study, and make everyone else aware of what will
be done, since these results might be used in a number of other analyses.

The wiki has been updated with extended abstracts that I have received so
far (accessible through the CHSP website at https://chsp.ucar.edu/), with
a few more to be posted in the next couple days. Those who have not yet
submitted theirs yet: the instructions are below (part of the last email I
sent around).

Also please do sign up for the CHSP email list (again through
https://chsp.ucar.edu/). I will only be sending one more reminder to sign
up before switching from the NSA email list to the CHSP list exclusively.
see you soon
Brian


> Hi all,
> In our Climate and Human Systems Project meeting earlier this week, we
> heard from Julio Bacmeister and Andrew Gettelman on their plans for
> looking at differences in cyclone activity, and its consequences for
> damage to physical infrastructure, between RCPs 8.5 and 4.5. Slides and
> brief notes are up on the wiki (accessible through the CHSP website at
> https://chsp.ucar.edu/).
>
> We decided to postpone our February meeting to March -- specifically
> *Tuesday, March 4, at 2 pm* in the Damon Room -- given the AMS meeting,
> CESM WG meeetings, and CLM tutorial going on in February. However, I
> think we should keep our original March 11 meeting date as well, and
> just double up that month, so we stay on track (I have listed future
> meeting dates below). On the 4th, we will address the topic of how
> extreme events are being handled across several studies in order to make
> sure it is as consistent as possible, and we'll hear short reports from
> Claudia Tebaldi, Steve Sain, Ben Sanderson, and Keith Oleson
> (preliminary list), followed by discussion.
>
> Two reminders:
>
> 1. The end of this month (i.e., next Friday) is the deadline for
> submitting ~2 page extended abstracts for papers you'd like to include
> in the special issue. I have listed below the content that should be
> included (this is also on the wiki in the notes for the December meeting).
>
> 2. Remember to sign up for the CHSP mailing list! You can do that on the
> CHSP site (https://chsp.ucar.edu/), via the link on the right side of
> the page. In the near future we will be switching over to that list and
> not sending these emails out broadly anymore.
>
> thanks
> Brian
>
> Future meeting dates (all on Tuesdays, 2-3 pm, Damon Room)
>
> March 4 - Extremes
> March 11 - Socioeconomic scenarios and assumptions
> April 15
> May 13
> June 3
>
> Content of Extended Abstracts
>
> - Title and planned contributors
> - Main objective and/or question to be addressed
> - At least a brief description of relevant literature and in what way
> this study will be novel
> - Methodology: include brief description of how the study will be
> carried out, including model simulations, CMIP5 analysis, etc. (e.g., as
> already produced for existing short descriptions). Please also be more
> specific to the extent possible including:
>      - what variables will be focused on (e.g., rather than just
> "extremes" say which ones and which metrics you are planning to use)
>      - what climate or socioeconomic scenarios will be used
>      - what geographic scale (global? focus on particular region(s)?)
>      - what timescale (outcomes over the entire century? beyond? focus
> on a particular time window?)
> - What is the relationship to other papers in the study? In some cases
> they may be fairly stand-alone (just sharing the use of RCP8.5 and 4.5
> with other studies), in other cases there are tighter links (e.g.
> tropical cyclone simulations in one paper and estimating economic
> consequences of those simulations in another).
>