cc: "k.briffa@uea.ac.uk" date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:01:58 -0500 from: "drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu" subject: RE: Fwd: RE: Recent NH reconstruction to: "t.osborn@uea.ac.uk" Hi Tim, Thanks for the data. It is good to have it all in one file like that. I honestly hadn't read your "breezy" article (that Mike hates so much) closely enough to realize the extent to which you recalibrated everything. That is fine, of course, to make all comparisons comparable. What surprised me the most was that you were able to use Mann et al. data from only land areas north of 20N. Mike's big argument has been that his series would gain some amplitude of multi-centennial low-frequency variability is the tropics were not included. Yet your results indicate that that is not the case, at least by much. I go down to Mike's place to give a seminar tomorrow. I am sure that he will fill my ears with more of his complaints. Cheers, Ed Original Message: ----------------- From: Tim Osborn t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:19:22 +0100 To: shaopeng@umich.edu, k.briffa@uea, drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu Subject: Fwd: RE: Recent NH reconstruction >>From: "Shaopeng Huang" >>To: >>Cc: >>Subject: RE: Recent NH reconstruction >>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:09:52 -0800 >> >>Hi Keith, >> >>I guess both your data sets and the recent Esper et al reconstruction are >>not available for distribution at this stage. I would appreciate if you >>would let me know when they are available. Shaopeng, in fact they *are* available and Keith forwarded your e-mail to me - but I was too busy last week to reply. A data file is attached that contains most of the time series that appear in our figure. The file is ASCII and should be self explanatory (I hope!). >>I have a question regarding your discussion on the borehole reconstruction. >>You showed one simple (unweighted) average curve and one gridded average >>curve. What is the size of a grid in your gridded averaging, 5x5 or 1x1? I >>agree that some weighting scheme might be helpful to reduce bias. But in an >>earlier testing, we found that the difference between weighted and >>unweighted averages within the range of uncertainty. We tried several grid definitions and found some sensitivity to the choice. The curve we plotted was based on a 10x10 grid. We are planning to write up something short about the sensitivity of the NH estimate to this and other choices, but haven't decided where to include it or in what form yet. Keith and I have a comment in press with GRL (.pdf file is attached) that you might find of interest (it was accepted in September and it seems that no progress has been made since - I'm really annoyed with GRL). Best regards Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .