Otherwise known as, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. At least, there isn’t any longer in the Climate Division at NCAR. It feels like a long time ago that we last dropped in to give seminars at NCAR. Well, perhaps that’s not so surprising as it was during our previous careers 🙂…
Our latest paper has just appeared in Nature Climate Change: “Evaluation of CMIP5 palaeo-simulations to improve climate projections”. It was mainly the brainchild of Sandy Harrison, intended as a response/update to the “preview” paper “Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data” which promised that the PMIP component of CMIP5 would provide assessments of model performance,…
If it’s April, it must be Austria. So far, our plan to travel less now we are back in the UK seems to be being mostly honoured in the breach. To be fair, we are travelling fewer miles and suffering less jet lag, and both these factors probably help to explain why we are still…
Last year jules went to Schloss Ringberg in Bavaria, for a workshop on cloud feedback and sensitivity “under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programmes (WCRP) Grand Science Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity and with the support of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.” (oh, the report on that…
British trains may be slow and prone to delay, but they are the main reason that British people are so ingenious. Harry Potter was famously dreamed up by JK Rowling on a train. And similarly, it was on a train that the idea of the earth system model we now called GENIE came into the  mind…
I’ve just had a very enjoyable visit to the UKMO Hadley Centre, courtesy of Richard Betts. My talk was similar to the one I recently gave in Japan, which had been a bit clunky and unrehearsed in parts, so in the intervening weeks I revised it a bit which I think/hope made it a bit…
Just had two weeks in Japan, mostly visiting our friends and colleagues in AORI and NIES. These institutes are both some way outside Tokyo but on the same train line out of Tokyo, so we stayed in Asakusa, close by the famous Senso-ji temple and very convenient for seeing various other friends and enjoying all…
