<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fc7218b9-7fff-19d3-9bca-00342d9501c0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to make you aware of the upcoming workshop on Community Climate Intervention Strategies on February 19-20, 2020,<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span> with possible team working sessions on Friday the 21st <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at NCAR in Boulder, CO</span></span>. Please note the date on your calendar.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This workshop is the result of the earlier internal workshop of the NCAR Climate Interventions Strategies (NCIS) project, that took place on July 30-31st, where the need for a holistic evaluation of climate intervention strategies was identified (see the executive summary at the bottom of the workshop page): </span><a href="https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/workshop/ncarucar-climate-intervention-strategies-ncis-workshop-2019" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/workshop/ncarucar-climate-intervention-strategies-ncis-workshop-2019</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The second workshop will bring together different communities and organizations in order to discuss a proposal to create a unifying framework that will focus on the holistic evaluation and assessment of all the proposed climate intervention strategies. We invite participation from various groups that are interested in this work, including experts on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Solar Radiation Management (SRM), integrated assessment modeling, observations, impact analysis from global through regional scale including impacts on society and ecosystems, stakeholders and funders.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information will follow in the next weeks and months.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The NCIS Steering Committee:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simone Tilmes, Peter Lawrence, Brian Medeiros, Roy Rasmussen, Wojciech Grabowski, Andrea Prein, Britt Stephens, Andrea Smith, Doug MacMartin, Deborah Lawrence, and Monica Morrison.</span></span></p></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i>Simone Tilmes,</i><br><i>Atmospheric  Chemistry, Observations & Modeling Lab<br>National Center for Atmospheric Research</i> <br>
<i> PO Box 3000</i> <br>
<i>Boulder, Colorado  80307-3000</i> <br>
<i>303-497-1445</i> <br>
<i>303-497-1400 (fax)<br>
</i>
<i><a href="mailto:tilmes@ucar.edu" target="_blank">tilmes@ucar.edu</a></i></div></div></div></div></div>