cc: Richard Thigpen , David Parker , Hans Teunissen , Mohan Abayasekara , David Goodrich , Howard Diamond , Matthew Menne date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:23:24 -0400 from: Thomas C Peterson subject: Re: Proposed stations to: Phil Jones Again, good job Dick on lining up new stations where the AOPC saw some voids. There may indeed have to be some digitizing of historical records for some of these locations. But hopefully the PRs you contacted understood that they would send the archive what digital daily data they do have. Regards, Tom Phil Jones said the following on 5/29/2007 6:19 AM: > > Dick, > Thanks for the update. It is likely that there are long > series for many sites in the old fUSSR, like Moldova > and Lithuania. Each country should have been sent > back their data pre-1991 by Obninsk, when fUSSR stopped. > > Also for Entebbe, this likely exists much further back > in UK archives. Similarly Aden goes back to the 1870s > in the UK archives. Latter is in the archive. I can > send you a contact name if you're not getting any luck. > > Cheers > Phil > > > At 08:54 28/05/2007, Richard Thigpen wrote: >> Hello All, >> During the WMO Congress we were able to meet with several PR's >> concerning GCOS and we have received a few offers of additional >> stations for the GSN and GUAN. I will prepare and send an assessment >> of the historical data and a map over the next few days. I will do >> them individually to keep the size down. But in the meantime here >> are some to think about. >> >> Yemen offers Aden and Sana'a for the GSN. They have no stations now >> and at AGG we indicated we would like to have some. (Sorry no luck >> with Somalia yet!) They have a lot of historical data at the UKMO >> but I don't know yet what is digital. I am trying to contact someone >> at UKMO who might know. The PR is interested in a pilot data rescue >> project. >> Uganda offers Entebbe for the GSN. They have no stations at >> present. A quick look shows that NCDC has data since 1949. >> >> Moldova offers Kisinev (33815) for GSN and NCDC has data since 1936. >> Moldova says they have data since the mid 1800's. They have no >> stations now. >> >> Switzerland offers Payerne for the GUAN. Matt/Tom, can you tell me >> if you have their historical data. >> >> There are a few other offers still dangling. I will send them to you >> as they get better defined. Lithuania for example suggested a very >> long history station but need to tell me more. Several additional >> countries in Africa will likely offer stations soon. Cheers >> Dick > > 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 p.jones@uea.ac.uk > NR4 7TJ > UK > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Thomas C. Peterson, Ph.D. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 Voice: +1-828-271-4287 Fax: +1-828-271-4328