date: Fri Oct 6 07:55:19 2000
from: Phil Jones
subject: Re: Power spectral figure for the TAR
to: Myles Allen
Myles,
It is the sort of thing we plan to do. Tim is off next week to spend
2 weeks with Mike in Charlottesville.
Cheers
Phil
At 05:19 PM 10/5/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Phil,
>
>Thanks for checking that -- doing the same thing with Mann et al would
>obviously be interesting, but without subsampling and processing the
>controls in the same way the observations have been massaged in his
>reconstruction, I'm not sure how meaningful the results would be. Isn't
>think pretty much what you're doing with Keith and Tim on that NERC
>project I reviewed?
>
>The nice thing about the obs-minus-all-forcings case is that all the main
>sources of bias in the observed spectrum are to over-estimate the variance
>on all timescales, giving a defensible upper bound. I can imagine a lot
>of the processing the Mann et al series has been through rather bleaching
>the colour out of it.
>
>Myles
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>On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Phil Jones wrote:
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>>
>> Myles,
>> You have my data in OK. The warmth of the last few years seems to
>> be having an effect. Have you tried a similar exercise with the Mann et al.
>> data ?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Phil
>>
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