PMIP Workshop Newsletter 1

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               PALEOCLIMATE MODELING INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT
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                       Workshop Annoucement / No. 1
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                              8 February 1995



Dear PMIP participant,                      

We are pleased to announce that the first PMIP workshop for discussing
model results has been scheduled for October 1 - 6, 1995 (arrival Sunday 1
departure Friday 6) in Collonges-la-Rouge (near Brive) France, one of the most 
famous old villages of France, just nearby the Perigord region, where we
plan an afternoon visit to the Lascaux prehistoric paintings (an excellent
copy of them, the orignal ones being closed).

The purpose of the workshop is to share results obtained by the
participating modeling groups for the 21 ka and 6 ka PMIP simulations
and to begin exploring model differences.  We envision that special
common interests will draw together groups of participants into
specific sub-projects which will focus on various aspects of the
simulations.  We shall also initiate planning for systematic
comparisons with paleoclimate data.


As a person who has been active in PMIP, you are invited to attend this
workshop and contribute in as many ways as you can to make it
successful.  We have tentatively reserved housing at "Le Val", a center
for seminars and family vacations, in Collonges.  We have obtained
funding from the European Union and NOAA, to help defray the costs of
the meeting.  (We thank P. Valdes, J. Mitchell, K. Herterich 
and S. Harisson for their help in writing the EU proposal 
and Robert Webb, Tony Broccoli and John Kutzbach for their help
in writing the NOAA proposal.) We will eat most
meals together in a common dining room and housing will be in small
houses nearby.  We also have reserved meeting rooms.

Our aim is to limit the workshop to no more than 45 participants in order 
to allow informal discussions of PMIP results.  Our
travel funds are also tight, so initially we are only inviting 1
participant from each PMIP modeling group (along with our advisory
committee and paleoclimate data subcommittee).  If you think it
important that someone else in your group also be invited, please let
us know immediately.  If you cannot attend, but your group expects to
have some results by the time of the workshop, please suggest an
alternate representative from your group.

We are confident that we have enough funding to cover the expenses of
each person (or alternate representative) invited through this
announcement (APEX air fares and lodging), but we may not be able
to cover the full expenses of 45 participants.  Please let us
know if you have independent funding that might help defray 
your costs.  We may require groups who wish to send
more than one representative to do so at their own
expense.

We must make a firm commitment as to how large our group will be 
by Feb.24.  THEREFORE PLEASE REPLY IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE FEB. 18  
BY E-MAIL INDICATING WHETHER OR NOT  YOU PLAN TO ATTEND 
AND IF YOU WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY YOUR SPOUSE (local costs about 
400 FF /day/person).  
Also let us know immediately whether you would like to invite anyone 
else not on our initial list (see below).  If you no longer are 
interested in PMIP or have no plans to do the PMIP experiments, 
let us know so we can revise our list of PMIP participants.

Sincerely yours,

Sylvie Joussaume and Karl Taylor
PMIP Coordinators   

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RESPOND BY FEBRUARY 18 to:
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Sylvie Joussaume
Laboratoire de Modelisation du Climat et de l´Environnement
DSM, Orme des Merisiers, Bat 709
CE Saclay
91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex
Tel : 33-1-69 08 77 11
Fax : 33-1-69 08 77 16

email : paleo (NEW! Please check the PMIP 'Contacts' web page)

  
Please edit the following:                     

1.  I (will/will not) attend the PMIP workshop.

     IF not:
     In my place I suggest inviting:      

2.  My spouse (will/will not) accompany me at our own expense
(approximate cost for spouse will be 400 FF per day plus travel
expenses).

3.  I (can/cannot) attend the full week.

    If not:
    I will attend only from             to               .
    (Note: That we may not be able to pay the full cost of those attending for 
     less than the full week.)

4.  I suggest inviting:    




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FIRST LIST OF INVITEES:

PMIP CO-Coordinators:
  
   S. Joussaume             
   K. Taylor                  

PMIP Advisory Committee:        

   L. Gates                  
   J. Kutzbach                
   S. Manabe                  
   J. Mitchell                
   D. Rind                   
   W. Prell 
   C. Prentice          
   A. Street-Perrott  

Data-Model Intercomparison Subcommittee:

   J. Guiot              
   S. Harrison          
   P. Bartlein            

NGDC Representatives:

   J. Overpeck        
   R. Webb                            

Workshop Organizing Committee (LMCE)

   P. Braconnot                 
   G. Ramstein                  
   N. de Noblet                 
   V. Masson                    

PMIP Participants:

   A. Abe-Ouchi                 CCSR        
   J. Adem                      Mexico U.
   A. Berger                    2-D LLN              
   T. Broccoli                  GFDL
   W. Budd                      CRC    
   K. Herterich                 MPI
   C. Hewitt                    UKMO
   A. Kislov                    Moscow  Univ.  
   A. Kitoh                     MRI     
   B. McAvaney                  BMRC
   N. McFarlane                 CCC
   B. Oglesby                   CCM1
   J. Oh                        YONU
   M. Schlesinger               Illinois      
   L. Sloan                     GENESIS I          
   J. Syktus                    CSIRO
   S. Thompson                  GENESIS II
   P. Valdes                    UGAMP
    
Proposals of special diagnoses :

   C. Genthon (LGGE)    model-model comparisons over polar ice caps