date: Tue May  8 08:59:56 2001
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: mxd data
to: Scott Rutherford <srutherford@virginia.edu>

At 15:09 04/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Tom Crowley asked me for the annual-mean reconstruction we did using 
>the MXD data and the RegEM method, which I personally don't have a 
>problem giving him.  He also asked me for the MXD data.  Here's his 
>e-mail:
>>
>>can you please ask Scott (dont have his email) to send the Briffa time
>>series recalibrated for mean annual NH temps?  I would prefer to see the
>>tree rings used to predict temps up to 1880.....

Scott,

it's fine to give him the RegEM annual NH series of course.  But not the MXD data itself.  I presume you would have sent him the gridded version of the MXD data that have been adjusted so that its low-frequency matches our regional age-banded reconstructions?  Well, the gridded version (and the adjusted gridded version) hasn't been written up yet so we'd rather it wasn't distributed yet.  Please use this explanation when turning down Tom's request, and direct him to us if he wants to explain his need for it.  From the extract of Tom's email shown above, it wasn't clear that he wanted the MXD data itself anyway.  

Hope all's well with you.

Tim