From: Lock, Adrian

Sent: 07 January 2015 15:44

To: 'dice@lists.gewex.org'

Subject: DICE plans

Dear DICE,

    Again more apologies from me for taking so long to update you with where we are with DICE. 

1) We are going to have a joint DICE-GABLS4 workshop at MeteoFrance in Toulouse, 20 to 22 May 2015. We think another DICE workshop would be good  for several reasons.  First it will give me and Martin a real deadline to work towards!  More importantly we are very much hoping that as many of you as possible will take the data (see 4, below) and bring your own analyses along to the workshop.  Finally, GABLS4 is colloquially known as "DICE on ice" and it would be really good to continue our surface-atmosphere coupling collaboration in the context of a snow/ice surface.  The GABLS4 webpage is http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/aladin/meshtml/GABLS4/GABLS4.html and includes some more details about the workshop.

2) Martin and I are working (albeit slowly!) on writing up papers describing DICE and a basic analysis of the three stages.  The plan now is to circulate first drafts of these before the Toulouse workshop

3) With apologies to LSM people who joined us a little later on, I'm not going to release yet another update to the stage 3b SCM forcing files.  I've finally got round to checking the 19 files we already have and 17 of them do have consistent surface fluxes and stresses (the thing that was concerning me back at the GEWEX meeting) and look good enough to assess the sensitivity of the SCM.

4) In the next few weeks Martin and I plan to make the submitted datasets (so all of your LSM and SCM runs, tidied up to be in the same format, etc!) available to the group so that you can all test out your own analyses/metrics of coupling strengths, etc.  In addition to discussing these at the workshop, this is with a view to getting a journal special issue together on all your DICE-related studies, including Martin and my basic intercomparison papers.  We are still in discussions about where would be best to have this but the current front runner is Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Please do get back to me if you have any questions.

Best wishes for the New Year,

   Adrian