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Hi all,<br>
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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://chsp.ucar.edu/">https://chsp.ucar.edu/</a>). <br>
<br>
We decided to postpone our February meeting to March -- specifically
<b>Tuesday, March 4, at 2 pm</b> 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. <br>
<br>
Two reminders:<br>
<br>
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). <br>
<br>
2. Remember to sign up for the CHSP mailing list! You can do that on
the CHSP site (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://chsp.ucar.edu/">https://chsp.ucar.edu/</a>), 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.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
Brian<br>
<br>
Future meeting dates (all on Tuesdays, 2-3 pm, Damon Room) <br>
<br>
March 4 - Extremes<br>
March 11 - Socioeconomic scenarios and assumptions<br>
April 15<br>
May 13<br>
June 3<br>
<br>
Content of Extended Abstracts<br>
<br>
- Title and planned contributors<br>
- Main objective and/or question to be addressed<br>
- At least a brief description of relevant literature and in what
way this study will be novel<br>
- 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:<br>
- what variables will be focused on (e.g., rather than just
"extremes" say which ones and which metrics you are planning to use)<br>
- what climate or socioeconomic scenarios will be used<br>
- what geographic scale (global? focus on particular region(s)?)<br>
- what timescale (outcomes over the entire century? beyond?
focus on a particular time window?)<br>
- 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).<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2013 11:57 AM, Brian O'Neill
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:52A36FA2.50104@ucar.edu" type="cite">Dear
colleagues,
<br>
Thanks to all of you who were able to attend the recent Climate
and Human Systems Project (CHSP) meeting, and to those who
expressed their interest even if they were unable to attend. Notes
and slides from that meeting are now up on the project wiki, which
can be accessed through the CHSP website (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chsp.ucar.edu/">http://chsp.ucar.edu/</a>,
access the wiki through the "Internal | Login" link on the right
side of the page). Please have a look there especially at the
"next steps" section of the Dec 3 meeting notes. As discussed at
the meeting, we are just getting started on a study of avoided
impacts (acronym: BRACE). Anyone interested in participating who
has not yet submitted a short description of a proposed analysis
(see wiki for current list) should get in touch with me, so that
we can discuss whether their particular idea would fit within the
study framework. The goal is to then have 2-3 page extended
abstracts for all proposed studies by the end of January.
<br>
<br>
The next meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan 21, 2-3 pm in the Damon
Room. Julio Bacmeister and Andrew Gettelman will be presenting
plans for (and maybe progress on?) two proposed papers, one on
simulating tropical cyclone activity under RCP8.5 and RCP4.5, and
the other on estimating economic impacts of that activity. Future
monthly meetings will similarly be organized around presentations
of plans/progress for other papers making up the study.
<br>
<br>
Apologies for the broadcast nature of this email. In the near
future we will have an email list set up for CHSP so that you can
sign up (or not) to receive these notifications, and then will
switch to only using that list.
<br>
best
<br>
Brian
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division &
Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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