date: Mon Sep 20 13:17:13 1999
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: CLIMEX tree rings
to: David Beerling <d.j.beerling@sheffield.ac.uk>


David

  I am still waiting on the data. I saw the samples when I was in Birmensdorf a few weeks ago and they were truly horrific. The guy will have done a miraculous job processing them at all. As for the time to analyse , Harry will have to spend time separating and reformatting the raw data. We will then pl;ot everything and have a look see. Forgive my memory - but did you send me information on the climate data for the site? I will send you plots as soon as we have them and we will discuss from there. Remember we have only 6 months money for Harry now that the contract was reorganised to pay Fritz. Will be in touch
      Keith

At 02:57 PM 7/14/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Keith
>
>I Fritz S. called up yesterday to say the work on the pine cores from
>CLIMEX (rings widths and MXD) was finished.  He is going to send the
>data to you for analyses by our joint post-doc.  We agreed it is worth
>measuring the birch rings widths, but apparently the MXD is not
>possible.
>
>There is a clear signal in the chronologies of the roof being put in
>place, but most significantly the rings widths get smaller with
>elevated CO2 and temperature and MXD seems to become uncoupled.  It is
>tempting to suggest this an important contributory factor to the reduced
>sensitivity of  re growth you  reported, besides the explanation offered
>in Nature last  week.  Critical though is whether the changes are
>statistically significant - how long will it take to get the data
>analyzed?
>
>When the birch results are in and those data analyzed as well I
>suggested to Frtiz that we all get together (perhaps at UEA) and discuss
>the results.  Regardless, its good to see some very intruiging results
>come out of this project.
>
>David
>
>