date: Mon Oct 19 16:44:47 2009 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: [Fwd: D'Arrigo et al 2006] to: Rob Wilson , Keith Briffa This might constitute joining the Team - although as I said the Team doesn't exist! I doubt JGR/AGU will follow this up. Cheers Phil At 16:35 19/10/2009, Rob Wilson wrote: Oh brother!!! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: D'Arrigo et al 2006 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:00:21 -0400 From: Steve McIntyre [1] To: 'Colin O'Dowd' [2] CC: Rosanne D'Arrigo [3] Dear Dr O'Dowd, In fall 2005, I corresponded with you in your capacity as Editor, JGR seeking data for D'Arrigo et al 2006 (then submitted), which was being cited by IPCC WG1. In that email, I referred to AGU policies for data citation and data archiving [4]www.agu.org/pubs/data_policy.html which requires that data cited in AGU pulications be located in a permanent archive. Despite this correspondence, the data archive for D'Arrigo et al 2006 remains abysmally incomplete. There is no data section describing where the data sets referenced in their Table 1 can be located. Indeed, for some of the regional composites, there is not even any information on which sites are included in the regional composite nor is the measurement data for individual sites available (e.g. Coastal Alaska, Central NWT and others.) Nor are the "chronologies" that result from the analysis carried out in the paper archived. I request that you take steps to ensure compliance with AGU data archiving policies by ensuring that proper listing of the sites for each Table 1 composite is provided and that the measurement data for each such site is located in a public archive. There is also an important error in the description of a key series. For the RCS chronology labelled "POL", core counts are shown for the Polar Urals site, while the RCS chronology actually shown is from a different site entirely (Yamal), which has much lower replication in the modern period. Regards, Steve McIntyre -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rob Wilson Lecturer in Physical Geography School of Geography & Geosciences University of St Andrews St Andrews. FIFE KY16 9AL Scotland. U.K. Tel: +44 01334 463914 Fax: +44 01334 463949 [5]http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/gg/people/wilson/ ".....I have wondered about trees. They are sensitive to light, to moisture, to wind, to pressure. Sensitivity implies sensation. Might a man feel into the soul of a tree for these sensations? If a tree were capable of awareness, this faculty might prove useful. " "The Miracle Workers" by Jack Vance ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------