date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:59:45 +0100 from: Ian Harris subject: Re: Stations used by CRU in CRUTEM3 to: Clare Goodess , Tim Osborn , Phil Jones , Keith Briffa , Mike Salmon , dave lister Hi All, I've added my working notes from the project as a separate Word doc (they're pasted from a text doc so no formatting). They give an idea of the QC techniques employed and might be useful.. or damning. Not sure what I can add to Phil's doc - or how to use Word's change tracking mechanisms! Cheers Harry On 3 Sep 2007, at 14:01, Clare Goodess wrote: > And a few more, very minor, comments from me. > > Clare > > At 13:25 03/09/2007, Tim Osborn wrote: >> Hi Phil -- I've made some edits and comments using tracked changes >> in the attached file... hopefully of some use. Cheers, Tim >> >> At 13:38 30/08/2007, Phil Jones wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> I'm being forced by the FOI Act to make some aspects of the >>> data used by CRU >>> to develop CRUTEM3. I've agreed to provide the information >>> contained in the second file. >>> In order to explain this, I've written the word document. Once >>> you've all had a look at this, >>> Mike can put it on our web site when I incorporate your changes. >>> Can you all look at the word document and suggest changes? >>> You'll need to >>> look at the other file to see what I'm having to explain. The >>> main issue is that >>> many of the country names are missing or not now correct and >>> some of the >>> station elevations are missing or zero (for some sites in the >>> fUSSR). These are >>> not important for the gridding - which is what I'm trying to >>> explain. >>> >>> Harry - can you recall if any of these locations (the lat/ >>> longs) were changed within >>> Brohan et al. (2006). Maybe you'll have some info about any >>> location changes. >>> I'm unsure as to whether these were incorporated into the file I >>> used to make >>> the 4167 lines. >>> >>> I've told the FOI person here in the library that we'll get >>> this up soon. So >>> hopefully we can get this up by the end of next week. >>> >>> You will all notice that the years associated with each >>> station are missing. >>> These were not included in the offer I made, so they aren't >>> getting these pieces >>> of information. The years are only useful in reading the >>> temperature file, as they >>> do give the first and last years, but some stations often have >>> sections of missing >>> data. >>> >>> 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 >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -------- >>> >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> > Dr Clare Goodess > Climatic Research Unit > School of Environmental Sciences > University of East Anglia > Norwich > NR4 7TJ > UK > > Tel: +44 -1603 592875 > Fax: +44 -1603 507784 > Web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ > http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm > > Ian "Harry" Harris Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\revised_db_readme.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\crustation_details_osbornedits_goodess1.doc"