date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:25:05 -0700 from: Darrell Kaufman subject: more from McIntyre to: Keith Briffa Hi Keith: this from McIntyre: Briffa's Yamal series, which has been a staple of these sorts of studies for many years. It would be highly desirable for someone to do a detailed reconciliation of why the updated version of Polar Urals yields such different results to Briffa's Yamal series. I assume he's referring to Grud's (sp) recent work. Let me know if you have a quick explanation. Thanks.