cc: =?gb2312?B?JUQ1JUM1JUMwJUYyJUMzJUY0IA==?= date: Mon Jan 14 09:21:18 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Two more quick questions-quick answer to: Dear Qingxiang, Thanks for the quick responses. I will send a revised version later today. With 243 stations needing adjustments, and 728 used, I presume the other 485 were considered to be OK without adjustment. Cheers Phil At 15:15 12/01/2008, you wrote: Dear Phil, I just give you some quick answers in your email. Best regards Qingxiang Dear Qingxiang, See also the earlier question below. I realise that I didn't send this to your other email address so apologies for that. So there are now 3 questions! 1. Will you need to get approval of CMA for me to submit this to a journal? I could send the paper to Guoyu Ren, for example? \\No. I donot need any approval of CMA for submitting this manuscript.\\ 2. David Lister has redrawn Figure 4 to be like the other time series plots. For Figure 5, though, we are using your excel plot directly. The question is how many station adjustments is the histogram based upon? \\Of all the 731 stations, 243 series were adjusted. and Figure 5 covered all the 243 stations adjustments.\\ 3. In the text I now refer to Li and Li (2007) as the source for the 700+ station average series. Can you tell me exactly how many stations there were? Knowing this will stop reviewers asking for the exact number. \\the exact number is 728, 3 stations series is not used because there are too much missing values in the series.\\ It is possible that the answers to both questions 2 and 3 will be the same number. I think though that the answer to Q2 will be a smaller number than Q3, as there must have been some stations that were not adjusted, so these were not included in the histogram! 4. Finally I have added in the Li and Li reference. I presume this is in Chinese. I think you've told me this. I just want to confirm? \\Yes.\\ I will write an abstract and conclusions this weekend and then send around (and to you as well) for some quick comments from a few colleagues in the UK and the USA. 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 p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------