date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:30:08 -0400 from: "Thomas.R.Karl" subject: Re: Keenan, China etc to: Phil Jones Hi Phil, Well... there will always be some outliers. Would be great to get IDAG and DAARWG on the same timeframe. Although let's hope we don't get the weather we had last Dec and early Jan in Boulder this year! Regards, Tom P.S. We are getting blogged all over for a cover-up of poor global station and US stations we use. They claim NCDC is in a scandal by not providing observer's addresses. In any case Anthony Watts has photographed about 350 stations and finds using our criteria that about 15% are acceptable. I am trying to get some our folks to develop a method to switch over to using the CRN sites, at least in the USA. Phil Jones said the following on 9/11/2007 9:51 AM: Tom, Have thought of you when sending the Wei-Chyung Keenan stuff. Ferris and the DAARWG dates though reminded me of the above again. Making the data available seems to make no difference to Keenan's response ! Hopefully you'll report an update to DAARWG! IDAG is meeting Jan 28-30 in Boulder. You couldn't make the last one at Duke. Have told Ferris about IDAG, as I thought DAARWG might be meeting in Boulder. Jan 31-Feb1 would be very convenient for me - one transatlantic flight, I would feel good about my carbon bootprint and I would save the planet! Cheers Phil Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email [1]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Thomas R. Karl, L.H.D. Director NOAA's National Climatic Data Center Veach-Baley Federal Building 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801-5001 Tel: (828) 271-4476 Fax: (828) 271-4246 [2]Thomas.R.Karl@noaa.gov