cc: Thomas.C.Peterson@noaa.gov date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:54:11 -0400 from: "Thomas.R.Karl" subject: Re: Fwd: response needed! to: Phil Jones Phil, Sounds very interesting. We will be interested in how she addressed the homogeneity issue for q. Glad someone took this on, it was long overdue. Tom Phil Jones said the following on 3/27/2007 9:30 AM: > > Tom, > It would seem that if Pielke had read the Vose et al (2005) paper > he refers to he could/should have realised that. It would seem that > this > paper has gone to JGR. I hope they have found some reasonable reviewers, > who can point out all the problems. > > Heard of some of the author list, but surprised to see Kevin Gallo > there. > > We will be submitting a paper in a few months on global-scale changes > in q. Kate Willett has got her PhD and has just left to work with > Steve Sherwood > for 6 months. Specific Humidity increases, almost exactly as you'd > expect > with rising T and a relatively constant RH. > > A short paper on D&A with q was submitted to Science, but they weren't > interested, so we've tried Nature. It is very detectable. > > Cheers > Phil > > > At 14:03 27/03/2007, Thomas.R.Karl wrote: >> Yes, >> >> Interestingly however, since the late 1970s max and min increase >> similarly, thus one could argue there is not land use or urban >> effects since 1970s based on the motivation here. >> >> Tom >> >> Phil Jones said the following on 3/27/2007 4:06 AM: >>> >>>> Tom and Tom, >>> >>> I suppose you've seen this paper. The only inhomogeneity for >>> global >>> temperatures that really matters in the bucket/intake one. >>> >>> >>>> http://climatesci.colorado.edu/publications/R-321.pdf >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> Phil >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >