cc: c.goodess@uea.ac.uk date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:21:53 +0000 (GMT) from: David Lister subject: Re: Indicators of Climate Change in the UK (fwd) to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:17:56 +0000 From: Tim Sparks To: D.Lister@uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: Indicators of Climate Change in the UK yes very keen to have SST; if it doesnt show an increase I willl go out and buy a hat and then eat it. I can probably draft your indicators based on the old text and then let you edit them if thats easier? Tim >>> David Lister 15/02/08 09:05 >>> Tim, As you will see, I have only sent "raw" updates. At the time of production, I did not realize that you were revising the format. I guess that we will have to be involved with any new text that fits in with the new format. I don't see this as a problem. Phil Jones has given me the location of the SST data that may do the job for an SST indicator series. Are you still up for this one (depending on how the series looks)? Cheers David On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Tim Sparks wrote: > David > Many thanks. I'll have a look over these and get back to you. I seem to be banging my head against a brick wall on this project so I am very grateful for your input. > Tim > >>>> David Lister 14/02/08 15:42 >>> > Tim, > > I have attached a few files that I produced back in November - for the > updating exercise. For some reason I did not send these to you at that > time! I hope that the file names tell you what they are. I hope that the > CET stats agree with the ones you have produced! I have provided overlap > with earlier data for checking purposes. Let me know of any problems. > > We did think about the SST indicator back in November. Phil Jones may be > able to help here. I have reminded him. > > Cheers > > David > > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Tim Sparks wrote: > >> Dear all >> I have just started drafting some revised indicators see attached. Apologies to the "authors" who haven't seen these. These will be web based only so should be simpler, in language and amount of text. I am hoping for a clean modern web site with good images. >> >> I am suggesting we drop any previous numbering so that we can add and remove indicators as we see fit; we are, after all, not restricted by defra any more. We can be a bit more imaginative in what we put in, providing we can explain it to Joe Public. I have no problem, at all, with re-using indicators prepared for other purposes. >> >> I have suggested two graphs (only one where it is a climate variable) followed by four simple paragraphs. >> >> - what does this show? >> - why is it important? >> - what drives the changes? >> - want to know more? >> >> with the "technical bits" as a button to a separate page. >> >> logos and images will be added. >> >> We will need the data in order to generate the graphs in the same format, and will need to create the means of automatically updating, for example you emailing the web people at CEH Lancaster. I think the website will have to grow gradually as I don't want to wait for all indicators to be ready before getting going. >> >> So PLEASE generate the indicators. 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