cc: d.lister@uea.ac.uk date: Fri Jul 9 09:00:57 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Reviewers' comments on draft final report to: "Rob Wilby" Rob, Thanks for the comments. David and I will digest them all over the weekend and we'll await your annotated draft, which may arrive later today or Monday. Where will you be next week, so we can call and discuss the responses we can and can't make? As the project is finished David and I can only spend a few days to a week or so revising the text. I hope you realise this and we'd like to do this in the next couple of weeks. We can't do any more work with double-mass plots or go to better ways of calculating AET. We can add additional references partly justifying the fixed AET values whilst also adding the references suggested. There are a few papers - one in Science - that show in the US that AET is going down, not up, even though PET is going up. There is a convoluted reason. I will have to revisit all this in the IPCC Chapter I'm co-ordinating. Also, we won't be able to go back to the EA regions about rating curves etc, but we can tighten up wording in a number of places. We can add that this was the position when we went to the EA. I remember improving access was your aim in getting us to do the work. So, we have got a few people to think in a better way. In all the contacts with the EA regions that David had no-one mentioned Wiski or Hiflow ? I guess the revised ratings came from the recent spells of high flows in 2000/2001. One final thing. I'm on a GCOS group that is writing an Implementation Plan. I'm on for the atmosphere, but the terrestrial people are there. They have a lot more difficulties but they talk a lot about riverflow wrt GTOS. We could mention this at some point. The EA should be sending long series of riverflow to GTOS (well the runoff data centre in Koblenz if they take on the responsibility) for a few selected catchments. So thanks again and we'll be in touch next week when we know where you'll be. Cheers Phil At 14:08 08/07/2004 +0100, you wrote: Dear David Please find attached three sets of independent comments on your draft final report on "Reconstructed river flow series from 1860s to present" (SC-03/02). I have also posted you my annotated draft today. Once you have had a chance to digest the feedback, perhaps you'd like to give me a call so that we can discuss delivery of the final report? We will also need to arrange delivery of the reconstructed flow series. Best wishes, Rob. Dr R.L. Wilby Climate Change Science Manager Environment Agency Trentside Office Scarrington Road West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 5FA Mob 07788568493 Tel 0115 8463727 Fax 0115 8463710 ********************************************************************** This message is confidential as it contains information about the person we are sending it to. If you have received this message by mistake, please delete it and do not copy it to anyone else. If this message contains information that you have requested from us please see our standard notice for details of how you may use that information. If the notice is not attached and you require a copy please telephone 0845 9333111 and ask for the customer contact. For further information about the Environment Agency call the number above or look at our web site at [1]http://www.environment-agency.gov.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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------