[Nsa] Notes and Next Mtg. of the Climate and Human Systems Project

[Brian ONeill]

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).

On 12/7/2013 11:57 AM, Brian O'Neill wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 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 (http://chsp.ucar.edu/, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> best
> Brian
>
>
>

-- 
Brian O'Neill
Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division &
Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
USA
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fax: +1-303-497-1348
boneill at ucar.edu
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/iam/

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