date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:29:33 +0100 from: Karen O'Brien subject: RE: Cuba expenses to: 'Mike Hulme' Daer Mike, Sorry for the delay in replying to your inquiry -- I was quite knocked out with a cold earlier this week. According to our accountant, the ?4,289.02 that she transferred to your account included the airfare, train and taxi (?1771), and the 6 days consulting fee ($3900) and 3 days per diem ($360). The exchange rates that she applied to this period were 1$ = NOK 7.32, and 1? = NOK12.384. The UNEP per diem rate for Cuba is $120.00 /day. If your actual expenses were more, you can send in the receipt and we will reimburse you for the true costs. Have a nice weekend! Regards, Karen Karen O'Brien Senior Research Fellow CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo) P.O. Box 1129 Blindern 0317 Oslo Norway Tel: 47 22 85 87 62 Fax: 47 22 85 87 51 email: karen.obrien@cicero.uio.no Internet: http://www.cicero.uio.no -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hulme [SMTP:m.hulme@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 1:18 PM To: karenob Subject: Cuba expenses Karen, The payment for my Cuba visit has been made successfully to my account, a total of 4287.02 pounds. My travel costs were 1771 pounds, thus leaving 2516.02 pounds as my consulting rate (6 days@$650/day allows for $1.55 to the pound). The contract with you also stated however that a per diem was also to be paid at the standard UNEP rate. I spent three days in the country, but the per diem for thesee 3 days seems not to have been included in the payment. Can you check this out for me and see whether something has been omitted? Many thanks, Mike ************************************************************************ **** Dr Mike Hulme Reader in Climatology tel: +44 1603 593162 Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784 School of Environmental Science email: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/ Norwich NR4 7TJ ************************************************************************ **** Mean temp. in Central England during 1997 was about 1.06deg C above the 1961-90 average (the third warmest year since 1659 - after 1990 and 1949) *************************************************** The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly estimate for 1997 was about +0.43deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year yet on record (beating 1995) ************************************************************************ ****