date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:03:30 +0100 (BST) from: Iain subject: Progress report? to: Keith Briffa Keith, The final version of the JGR paper has been submitted and will be published in July/August. Thanks again to yourself and Phil for writing it!! I would be grateful if the following message is treated confidentially. I've just returned from a week in Juelich. Although the trip was not related to the EC project we worked on the Irish data. To be honest the situation is a bit of a nightmare! The person that has done most of the work is Gerd Helle, who as far as I can see was NOT employed on the EC project in any capacity. They have all their carbon results, however there will not be any oxygen results until there is a continuous flow system (months??). We used a Gaussian filter to emphasise the year-to-year variability in a similar manner to the JGR paper and Gerd is working on a paper. They are very wary of the errors inherent in the mirrored ends of the 60 year Gaussian filter. Fair enough! Therefore they may compare the results to discrimination calculations - sounds good... As far as I'm aware there is no relative humidity data for Armagh - I've contacted John Butler there... The problem as you're aware is that there still doesn't appear to be a sense of urgency - I gather you indicated in the final EC report that the Juelich report would follow. Gerd has just got his PhD and now has time to work on the data. If you haven't given up, his e-mail is Gerd Helle . Along with Schleser they plan to come to Cambridge later in the year... Have you pulled all your hair out? Iain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iain Robertson + Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research + University of Cambridge + Tel ++ 44 (0)1223 334881 Free School Lane, Cambridge + Fax ++ 44 (0)1223 334871 UNITED KINGDOM CB2 3RS + Mobile ++ 44 (0)976 987908 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Godwin Institute homepage http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/GIQR.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------