date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:34:06 +0000 from: Ian Harris subject: Re: Vapor pressure in CRU TS 2.10 to: Tim Osborn Hi Tim, Yup - all the decadal 2.10 files for WET and VAP had been swapped. And rescaled to look like they ought to. Inexplicable. Harry On 6 Nov 2007, at 16:34, Tim Osborn wrote: > Hi Harry -- still catching up on my emails... is the query below > now resolved because the wet-day counts and vapour pressures had > been interchanged (or some explanation like that)???? Cheers, Tim > > At 08:08 24/10/2007, Ian Harris wrote: >> Phil, Tim >> >> Any ideas? I think he means 'Northern Eurasia' rather than 'polar'. >> >> Harry >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: "Wladimir J. Alonso" >>> Date: 23 October 2007 19:13:20 BDT >>> Cc: i.harris@uea.ac.uk >>> Subject: Vapor pressure in CRU TS 2.10 >>> >>> Dear Ian, >>> >>> I am using the dataset CRU TS 2.10 on an ongoing study on worldwide >>> diversity of palms, and we noticed that there is something a bit >>> strange >>> about the vapor pressure. As you can see in the attached image >>> generated >>> from one month (Jan/1981) picked up at random from the TS 2.10 >>> dataset, the vapor pressure present high values near the polar >>> regions. This is in contrast with the data you present at http:// >>> www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~markn/jpg/glo_vap.gif >>> >>> I would much appreciate if you could help us on this. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> >>> Wladimir >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Wladimir J. Alonso (MSc, PhD) >>> International Epidemiology and Population Studies >>> Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health >>> Phone: +55-48 9148 7830, +55 48 3233 6172 >>> e-mail: alonsow@mail.nih.gov, wladimir@origem.info >> >> >> >> Ian "Harry" Harris >> Climatic Research Unit >> School of Environmental Sciences >> University of East Anglia >> Norwich NR4 7TJ >> United Kingdom >> >> > > Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow > Climatic Research Unit > School of Environmental Sciences > University of East Anglia > Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK > > e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk > phone: +44 1603 592089 > fax: +44 1603 507784 > web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ > sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm > > Ian "Harry" Harris Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom