date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:21:15 +0000 from: Ian Harris subject: Re: data access to: Keith Briffa Hi Keith, On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Keith Briffa wrote: >> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:37:25 -0500 >> To: Tim Osborn , >> Michael Oppenheimer , >> Phil Jones , Keith Briffa >> , >> , , >> Tom Wigley , >> tom crowley , Gabi Hegerl >> , >> Jonathan Overpeck , rbradley@geo.umass.edu, >> mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu >> From: "Michael E. Mann" >> Subject: Fwd: Re: data access >>> In order to facilitate any attempt to reproduce our results we are >>> now taking a further step beyond those normally required in the >>> publication of such research. We are working with Nature to provide >>> the MBH98 proxy data set in a more transparent, user-friendly >>> format than that set up in 2002, Well at least he implicitly acknowledges the labyrinthine nature of the existing site! Aaaaaand it's obviously not just me having trouble with it :-) >>> including additional documentation, fixing of minor typos in the >>> descriptions of different datasets, and providing some additional >>> minor methodological details of the MBH98 analysis. We are also >>> providing the full raw instrumental University of East >>> Anglia/Climatic Research Unit surface temperature dataset 1854-1993 >>> (Briffa and Jones, 1992), because CRU has since updated their >>> surface temperature dataset, and no longer archives the version that >>> we used when we began our study in the mid 1990s. Ooh! Are we being scolded? Needless to say, I have this work on a medium priority. There's plenty of comparatively urgent work for HOLSMEER! By the way Keith - any more news or thoughts regarding possible PhD directions? Cheers Harry Ian "Harry" Harris Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich NR2 4HG United Kingdom