date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:05:15 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Fwd: to: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,k.briffa@uea.ac.uk Keith, Tim The series might be useful to you. Also see the para about Soon and AGU. Apparently Soon is only in it for the science !!! Cheers Phil >Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:15:14 -0400 >From: Ellen Mosley-Thompson >Subject: >X-Sender: ethompso@pop.service.ohio-state.edu >To: rbradley@geo.umass.edu, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, >mann@multiproxy.evsc.virginia.edu >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 > >Ray, Phil and Mike, > >Lonnie has gone off to Peru for the next 7 weeks. Just before leaving he >asked me to pull together the decadal averages (dO18) for the six cores (3 >from Tibet and 3 from So. America) that we used to create the composites >shown in Figure 7 of our paper in the Highest volume (Climatic Change, >2003) and to send them to you. >I have attached those data in an Excel file; please note that the recent >decade is often incomplete and for Dunde and Guliya there are no data for >the most recent decade. Also note that the time scale on Dunde is >approximate and based on a model that assumes steady state conditions >(i.e.., constant accumulation). It is guided by a few marker horizons but >should be viewed as an approximate time scale. > >If you have any questions I would be happy to try to answer them, but I >think everything is pretty straightforward. > >I guess you guys are pretty tied up with all the fuss that the Forum piece >kicked up. >I thought I would gag when I heard that Soon contacted AGU to question the >nature of the review (to which your piece was subjected) and claimed that >this was a clear effort to politicize the issue (he would never do >that). Of course he stressed that he and his colleagues were only >interested in the science and not the political aspects of the issue). I >heard that you had at least one inquiry from a congressional office (the >minority party no doubt). I guess your piece will stirs things up a little! > >Have a nice summer, >Ellen > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\6-core-composite-for-Bradley-Jones-Mann.XLS"