# REG Kickoff Meeting

October 4, 2022

## Proposed Agenda
- Intro to REG (CRS/AH)
- Research background without individual research agenda
- Help make the research output open, reproducible
- Not just here to wrap up code, interested in contributing to the research side
- Way we Work: work well in sprints, Github (e.g. project board)
- Project Context & Stakeholders (JD)
- Intro to DyME-CHH (RB)
- Intro to CLIM-RECAL (RB)
- Question: calibrating against observational data now?
- RB: Climate projections provide 30 years of back cast data, so you use the observed data against the back cast data. There's never going to be perfect results; there will be issues with whatever methodology you use. What we can do is compare them and offer in a useful way to researchers
- FB: always distortions with cartography projections; about choosing the best one for your use case. Help researchers understand what distortion they are working with
- Question: do you have a list of metrics to evaluate different performances?
- RB: depending on the method you will evaluate in a different way; we will follow best practices in the literature
- Question: what do you mean by different methods have pros/cons? Shouldn't one just be more accurate? Is it question-based: what's best for you at that time?
- RB: some focus on better measure of precipitation or other climate variables. You can't really well assess how well a projection is done because it's in the future?
- Question: this repo, do you have documentation as well as calibrated projections as well? Are the methods easily available?
- RB: probably not because they are huge; The methods really varies (lots of literature) and in different languages which influences who uses it
- Question: is one outcome to document/point/implement methods?
- RB: we will be implementing them to UKCP18 data and have comparison of methods
- FB: we will compare methods in a public way and link up test data/results so others can reproduce/test the methods
- Intro to SPC (FB)
- Ruth to send papers/slides/github repo (REG/RPM)
- Send meeting invite
- REG folks mostly in the office some days a week (Thursdays)
- RPM: for the project plan, do we have objectives or milestones