Re: [FRIAM] Climate Modeling

2020-01-19 Thread Frank Wimberly
When I was working at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (1990-1996), one of our prominent users was Kelvin Droegemeier. He was a professor at the University of Oklahoma and director of the center for the analysis and prediction of storms he was an expert on tornadoes. I'm not sure about his kn

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Modeling

2020-01-19 Thread Steven A Smith
Oh... also an interesting report on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) as canonical scenarios to be used with these models. > > Eric - > > Great back-of-envelop summary/speculation and I second your desire for > someone well-steeped in these modeling/assessment issues. > > We (speaking out o

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2020-01-19 Thread Tom Johnson
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[FRIAM] Climate Modeling

2020-01-19 Thread Steven A Smith
Eric - Great back-of-envelop summary/speculation and I second your desire for someone well-steeped in these modeling/assessment issues. We (speaking out of school for Merle, Stephen, and the team that went to and met with the Stockholm Team last month) would love to find someone with that depth/b

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-19 Thread David Eric Smith
Sorry… My own typos are bad enough, but usually comprehensible. But when the damned computer helpfully comes in and substitutes the word it thinks I must have meant, the result is a true obscurity: > One also wants to take into account arctic se ice, which if I really is on a > faster melting

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-19 Thread David Eric Smith
Would be interesting to know what the buffers are, that weren’t in that run of models. Temperatures are lower than forecast, but Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting rates are higher. They seem like small land areas, and the ice volume small, but specific heat of melting is large per volu