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South Asian Precipitation: A Seamless Assessment: SAPRISE

South Asian Precipitation: A Seamless Assessment: SAPRISE. An NERC/MoES funded project Changing Water Cycle Programme PIs: Krishna AchutaRao Mat Collins. Partner Institutions and Scientists. 1: IIT, Delhi: Prof Krishna AchutaRao , Dr Sagnik Dey

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South Asian Precipitation: A Seamless Assessment: SAPRISE

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  1. South Asian Precipitation: A Seamless Assessment: SAPRISE An NERC/MoES funded project Changing Water Cycle Programme PIs: Krishna AchutaRao Mat Collins

  2. Partner Institutions and Scientists 1: IIT, Delhi:Prof Krishna AchutaRao, Dr Sagnik Dey 2: Univ. Exeter: Prof Mat Collins, Dr Indrani Roy 3: ICCSIR, Gujarat: Dr Vikram M. Mehta, Dr Satyendra Bhandari, Dr Rohit Srivastava 4: IITM, Pune: Dr K. Ashok, Dr. Jayasree Revadekar, Mr Sudhir Sabade 5: IIT, Kanpur: Prof S.N. Tripathi 6: IIT, Kharagpur: Prof P.C. Pandey, Dr Mihir Kumar Dash 7: IMD: Dr D.R. Pattanaik 8: Met Office Hadley Centre: Dr B. Bhaskaran, Dr Alberto Arribas, Dr Viju John, Dr Richard Levine, Dr Gill Martin, Dr Sean Milton, Dr Jane Mulcahy 9: NCMRWF: Dr E.N. Rajagopal, Dr Ashis K. Mitra, Dr Raghu Ashrit, Mr G.R. Iyengar, Dr John P. George 10: Univ. Reading: Dr Andy Turner, Dr Richard Allan, Dr Liang Guo, Prof Ellie Highwood Guests: Kopal Arora, Christine Chung, Sam Ferrett, David Long, Thomas Mendlik, Joe Osborne, …

  3. Aims of the Meeting • To (further) get to know each other • To report on the research and other activities that has been going on • To identify areas for joint research, papers etc. • For me and Krishna to capture some of the information why might need for reporting/promoting the project

  4. Wednesday AM Discussion Session Possible topics • Ideas for collaboration within the project • Future research topics • Pathways to impact • Future funding opportunities • Other opportunities (workshops etc.) • Venue of next meeting

  5. Recent/Future Activities • Some project members attended a ‘reporting’ meeting in Delhi in February (co-incident with meeting on future funding call) • I met with Ken Sperber (Scientific Oversight Committee - SOC) to explain the project to him • UK Changing Water Cycle meeting • Forthcoming joint Indian and Pacific CLIVAR panel – Wenju Cai (SOC) is co-chair of PP

  6. Admin Stuff • Please make your own name badge • Underline the name you wish to go by e.g. Mat Collins • WIFI – temporary accounts supplied every day. See circulating sheet. Choose a username/password then cross it off the list • Weather: Dry with sunny spells, small chance of a shower. 10-20°C

  7. Project Dinner Dinner Choices

  8. Management and Oversight • Regular email and telephone/Skype meetings between PIs • 3 project meetings planned + local UK and India meetings. • Kickoff meeting held at Pune in Feb 2012 • Next meeting being planned for Exeter, UK in June 24-26 2013 • Scientific Overview Committee comprising 3 international scientists • Ken Sperber, PCMDI, Co-chair CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel • Wenju Cai, CSIRO, Co-chair CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Panel • Olivier Boucher, LMD, Co-CLA IPCC AR5 Aerosols Chapter • Technical Steering Committee in India to help in decision making. • K. AchutaRao (IITD), K. Ashok (IITM), E.N. Rajagopal (NCMRWF), S. N. Tripathi (IITK), Dr. Vijay Kumar (MoES)

  9. Scientific Objectives • To investigate driving processes, variability, predictability and forced changes in South Asian precipitation on multiple time scales. • A key focus will be on interactions with the Indian and remote ocean basinsand on the local and remote interactions with the dynamic and radiative effects of aerosol.

  10. Scientific Summary • Strength of Monsoon in models sensitive to both large- and small-scale processes and features (Tibetan Plateau, SSTs, land-surface, monsoon depressions, …). Follow up on Arabian SST issue in CMIP5 (UoE)? • Intriguing results on decadal variability and predictability. • What are we verifying our models and predictions against? Divergence in observational estimates of rainfall. How to follow up? • Aerosol impacts – how good are our models and how do aerosols impact on monsoon rainfall? Potentially very powerful set of experiments planned.

  11. Wednesday AM Discussion Session Possible topics • Ideas for collaboration within the project and future research topics (see previous slide) • Pathways to impact • Future funding opportunities (Monsoon Mission?) • Other opportunities (workshops etc.) • Venue and timing of next meeting

  12. Pathways to Impact • All UK PDRAs to attend NERC media training • Social networking • Engagement through Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) • Invite Indian policy makers to project meeting (e.g. Ashok is part of UNFCCC negotiations)

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