From: Tim Osborn To: "Michael E. Mann" Subject: Re: newest reconstruction Date: Mon Feb 28 13:50:17 2000 Cc: k.briffa@uea, t.osborn@uea At 11:56 25/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >I need your newest northern hemisphere density-based tree-ring reconstruction >and appropriate reference for updating IPCC. Please send in ASCII format as >soon as possible so we can incorporate. I hope all is well. Thanks, Hi Mike Keith asked me to get back to you on this. The reconstruction is the same as the one I sent on the 5th October 1999, but I'm sending it again in case that e-mail isn't handy. The reconstruction has now been published, in the following paper: Briffa K.R. (2000) Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 87-105. This paper does not, however, give full details about how the reconstruction was obtained. The details are not yet published, but will soon be submitted: Briffa KR, Osborn TJ, Schweingruber FH, Harris IC, Jones PD, Shiyatov SG and Vaganov EA (2000) Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network. In preparation (to be submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research). Details about the file I'm sending you (repeated from 5th Oct 99): The data are attached to this e-mail. They go from 1402 to 1994, although we usually stop the series in 1960 because of the recent non-temperature signal that is superimposed on the tree-ring data that we use. I haven't put a 40-yr smoothing through them - I thought it best if you were to do this to ensure the same filter was used for all curves. The data I've sent are calibrated over the period 1881-1960 against the instrumental Apr-Sep tempratures averaged over all land grid boxes (that have observed data) that are north of 20N. As such, the mean of our reconstruction over 1881-1960 matches the mean of the observed target series over the same period. Since the observed series consists of degrees C anomalies wrt to 1961-90, we say that the reconstructed series also represents degrees C anomalies wrt to 1961-90. (I've already truncated the series at 1960 because of the problems with the recent period.) Best regards Tim