date: Tue Dec 14 15:39:44 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Some brief responses on 3.2/3.3/3.8 to: Kevin Trenberth Kevin, I got this in the post also. I'll email David and check he's got this. I expect David will have had something to do with this special issue. It'll be most surprising if he hasn't. It isn't currently in my refs though ! Send refs when ready. Secretary working on these at the moment. I can add in Jim's changes and yours. And also hurricane piece to 3.8. I've gone through most of your comments on 3.2/3.3/3.8. I've sorted a few (~20%) but left most for David and Dave to deal with. They are now highlighted and I've elaborated on your comments. Just need to merge the text - tomorrow. Will try and do this for the Figs now. I hope Dave's revised ones come. They might have to be in a separate file. His last set were enormous. Cheers Phil At 15:12 14/12/2004, you wrote: Phil I just received in the mail a paper: Ishii, M., A. Shouji, S. Sugimoto, and T. Matsumoto. 2005 Objective analyses of SST and marine meterological variables for the 20th Century using ICOADS and the Kobe collection. Intl J. Climate, in press. Are you aware of this? They have SST time seris for global ocean that ought to be included. In reading it I was not very impressed. It also has NMAT, called NAT, SLP, wind, cloud and dew point. We need to get this into the report. I only have hard copy. Kevin Phil Jones wrote: Kevin, 1. We'll be using Smith and Reynolds (2005) for surface T plots, so we'll get global coverage for 1979-2004. This uses blended satellite SST estimates. We'll also be using this for the 20th century, but the bias comes in when infilling gaps in the early 20th century - the NCDC series being less cool (now reworded) ! I've yet to see this 2005 paper ! 2. Marshall Shepard did send something. Far too much - Dave's word was a tome. 3. The summary sections all need more work. Will highlight this and see what David and Dave can do. Cheers Phil 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 [1]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- **************** Kevin E. Trenberth e-mail: [2]trenbert@ucar.edu Climate Analysis Section, NCAR [3]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/ P. O. Box 3000, (303) 497 1318 Boulder, CO 80307 (303) 497 1333 (fax) Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80303 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------