date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:11:48 -0400
from: jarmour@nas.edu
subject: Request from Michael Mann to Review PNAS MS # 2009-09401
to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk

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   September 11, 2009
   Dear Dr. Jones,
   Michael Mann is conducting the review of a Direct Submission by wang et al. (MS
   #2009-09401) and would like you to be a reviewer for this article if your schedule permits.
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   Manuscript Details
   Title: "Improving Spatial Temperature Estimation of Global Climate Change - The Case of
   China"
   Tracking #: 2009-09401
   Authors:
   Jin-Feng wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   Mao-Gui Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   George Christakos (San Diego State University)
   Cheng-Sheng Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   Yan-Sha Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   Ai-Hua Ma (Beijing Normal University)
   ACCEPT
   [1]Accept the invitation and begin your review.
   DECLINE
   [2]Decline the invitation and provide alternate reviewer suggestions.
   Abstract:
   A small variation of global annual temperature would cause considerable ecological,
   economic and social consequences at a regional scale or worldwide, which is why
   considerable efforts are made worldwide to improve the accuracy of temperature estimation
   across space. These efforts typically include extending the monitoring network, improving
   record quality, and integrating multi-sourced information bases. Statistical inference of
   global climate attributes on the basis of observed samples can introduce considerable
   uncertainty in temperature estimation. A theoretical model of annually averaged spatial
   temperature estimation is proposed that is statistically unbiased and minimizes the
   estimation error variance throughout the large territories of heterogeneous climate change.
   On the basis of the extensive China dataset, it is shown that the study of climate change
   can be improved by using proposed model in the spatial analysis of temperature values.
   Compared to the currently
   used grid average technique, the proposed model can reduce the standard deviation of the
   annually averaged temperature predictions by 0.50C and the standard error deviation of the
   annually averaged temperature anomaly by 50%. The proposed method is applicable in the
   study of climate attributes at both the regional and global levels.