cc: "Jones, Phil" , "Ryall, Derrick" , "McCarthy, Mark" , "Kennedy, John" date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:58:25 +0100 from: David Parker subject: Re: Fw: Re: English improvements to your paper to: liqx@cma.gov.cn Dear Dr Li You are welcome to visit the Met Office Hadley Centre during your visit to Norwich. I understand that you are co-author of a paper submitted to Journal of Climate led by Phil Jones on urban influences on China's temperatures and this subject is of considerable interest to us. In particular, there seem to be two streams of papers, one stream claiming much more urban influence than the other. A new paper, just published by G. Ren et al. in J Climate, claims quite a lot of urban influence in North China; it is attached and I see it is not get referenced in Jones et al. Much of the sampling-error work has been developed by Phil Jones and I expect you will build on that while in Norwich. I have copied this to Mark McCarthy who is in our urban climate impacts team. John Kennedy works on global climate monitoring and will have some interest too. Please let Phil Jones and me know in due course when your visit is likely to be; also whether you will visit us alone or with colleagues. Note that in the United Kingdom we often take vacations in the second half of July and in August. Before that, Phil Jones and I are away at a meeting in Geneva 21-25 April and I am away at other meetings in the first half of May. We will need to know your passport number, date and place of birth, also the same details for any accompanying colleagues. You could fax us the page of your passport(s) that shows these. Regards David Parker On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 09:06 +0800, liqx@cma.gov.cn wrote: > Dear Dr. David Parker, > > I am Qingxiang Li,a scientist from China Meteorological Administration. I am talking with Phil on building the regional average (for mainland China) temperature/precipitation series and the > sampling error estimating. Phil can provide me an invitation letter and he recommende me visiting Hadley Centre as well on this topic when I was in Norwich and he want to check if MOHC can have me for a visit in Exeter. > I emailed John Kennedy but received no response, so I am writing you to ask for help. Would you mind telling me your opinions? > > Thank you very much. > > Best regards > > Qingxiang Li > Senor engineer > Deputy dirrector > Division of Operation, Science and Technology > National Meteorological Information Center > China Meteorological Administration > 46. Zhongguancun South Avennue, Beijing, China, 100081 > > > -- David Parker Met Office Hadley Centre FitzRoy Road EXETER EX1 3PB UK E-mail: david.parker@metoffice.gov.uk Tel: +44-1392-886649 Fax: +44-1392-885681 http:www.metoffice.gov.uk Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Ren_etal_JClimate200803.pdf"