cc: Jonathan Gregory , Keith Briffa ,s.raper@mmu.ac.uk, simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:25:40 +0100 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Erik Sea Level curve (fwd) to: "Lowe, Jason" Further to the problems with drift in both the ECHO-G ocean temperatures and the near-surface air temperature in regions of accumulating snow, and given the shortage of remaining SOAP time, I propose to drop analysis of ECHO-G sea level as unlikely to produce useful results. I will talk to the ECHO-G groups about this, but as none were down on the list to do any sea level work anyway, I doubt that they will mind. Is that ok with you? Cheers Tim Dr Timothy J Osborn Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm