hi

  I hope for these new sets of experiments that provision will be made to output some high frequency atmospheric data, i.e. 6 hourly, for selected

representative periods, 30 years would be Ok, but 100 years would be better. This would allow us to explore storm activity and variability in detail and in particular extremes and to contrast with current and future storm climatologies. Only a selected number of variables would be required, MSLP, precip., winds at several levels, ideally every 100hPa in the troposphere.

I believe this was a major failing in CMIP3 and to some extent PMIP. If PMIP models for these experiments are to be run at higher resolutions than was previously the case then it makes storm studies more attractive and the neccessity for the higher frequency data.

Is there any information about how and where data will be archived?

Regards

Kevin

hi

 the variable list from CMIP5 is circulating for comment and thankfully there are priority 1 request for some 6 hourly data such as

winds on several pressure levels as well as MSLP and a few other veriables. I hope this will provide motivation for outputing these variables for the PMIP3 simulations. I guess the main question is for how long and what periods/experiments. Ideally I am interested in all the proposed experiments but I guess because of archiving issues some selection is neccessary. Certainly the pre-industrial, last glacial maximum and mid-holocene should be priorities. At a minimum representative 30 year periods should be chosen but the longer the better.

Regards

Kevin