date: Mon Nov 26 10:03:10 2007 from: Keith Briffa subject: Fwd: Re: south central England Oak to: t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk let's discuss this before sending Keith Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:38:15 +0000 From: Rob Wilson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) To: K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: south central England Oak X-StAndrews-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-StAndrews-MailScanner: No virus detected X-StAndrews-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.675, required 5, HTML_20_30 0.47, HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED 0.10, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.10) X-StAndrews-MailScanner-From: rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk X-UEA-Spam-Score: 3.7 X-UEA-Spam-Level: +++ X-UEA-Spam-Flag: NO Hi Keith, that would be great. Yes - you have showed my your ADVANCE report and the reconstruction. If I remember, it was a relatively high frequency series though. My interest is more in low frequency trends. The year-to-year precipitation signal is not particularly strong in Oak, but I am convinced that there are some interesting low frequency trends, but to really explore them robustly, I need lots of data. Pfister is also doing some documentary work and it may be possible to combine the historical and TR data at some later stage. Looking through your PhD - which is a great piece of work I might add - and I am not saying that to suck up - the sites which appear to sit within our target region are: CRU1 CRU2 QB6 QB9 CRU3 QB3 - this site might be a little to far west although the dominant signal is precipitation, our target region is roughly equal to the that covered by the CET record, so if you have any other relevant Oak chronologies from this region, that would be great. I would be happy to collaborate in some way if that would reduce any conflicts all the best Rob [1]K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk wrote: Hi Rob did not see any previuos email from you but it may have gone into my junk mail folder (no pun). No problem in sending you the oak data - in fact I thought they were in the ITRDB but Tom has just told me that he only sent my early pine data. Incidentally, I have to say that we have already done some work reconstructing PDSI for a western Europe area, using a single regional chronolgy predictor produced as part of the ADVANCE work. We never got round to publishing it but I will look it out and perhaps redo with the ScPDSI data. Cheers Keith P.S. what little bird? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rob Wilson Lecturer in Physical Geography School of Geography & Geosciences University of St Andrews St Andrews. FIFE KY16 9AL Scotland. U.K. Tel: +44 01334 463914 Fax: +44 01334 463949 [2]http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/gg/people/wilson/ ".....I have wondered about trees. They are sensitive to light, to moisture, to wind, to pressure. Sensitivity implies sensation. Might a man feel into the soul of a tree for these sensations? If a tree were capable of awareness, this faculty might prove useful. " "The Miracle Workers" by Jack Vance ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [3]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/