date: Thu Feb 19 15:41:13 2009
from: Phil Jones
subject: Re: London UHI
to: "Jenkins, Geoff"
Geoff,
I know you don't want me to send you something now. I mentioned ages
ago (last year) about some work on the London UHI I'd been doing.
Here is the paper. It's just been accepted for Weather. I've to make
slight changes to the English, that have taken me 20 minutes.
The bottom line is that there is no urban-related warming at St James Park
since 1900. The paper quantifies what the UHI is, but it has got no worse
since 1900.
Make sure you're not saying anything to contradict this in the urban annex
of your report.
Chris and I are glad that Colin spotted the mistake with the change factors
being slightly offset. Mistake has been there a while! Shouldn't
make much difference to the WG maps/tables.
When you've got some time ask me about wind!
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
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