date: Mon Aug 8 17:06:35 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: DTR paper to: "Russell Vose" At least it's -ve ! It does look better. Home now ! Phil At 16:51 08/08/2005, you wrote: The 1979-2004 DTR trend is a statistically insignificant -0.001 C/dec. The new plot probably looks better because South America is fixed. Also, for some reason the red stands out less when the maps are smaller! If Byron changed the color bar it's probably because Kevin asked him to. Byron has a zillion directories with IPCC stuff -- he basically saves every version of everything. So if someone changes there mind 20 times over the course of 6 months, then settles on something they tried a while earlier, he can say, "You were right back on October 1st!" Phil Jones wrote: Russ, New plot for 1979-2004 looks a little different from the one we already have. It also looks as though there is slightly more blue. Even if it's not significant a trend number with a minus sign will be good enough for Kevin. Well, I hope so ! More of the extreme colours have gone this time, but Byron's changed the colour bar ! Cheers Phil At 15:19 08/08/2005, you wrote: Yes, there will be tables documenting trends globally and for each hemisphere (annual and by season). Phil Jones wrote: Russ, Presumably the paper will have trends averaged for NH, SH and Globe for the two periods 1979-2004 and 1950/1-2004. SH isn't essential as long as Globe and NH are there. Looking forward to the plots. Phil At 15:14 08/08/2005, you wrote: Phil: The paper will contain time series and maps for both periods. I'll forward the maps in my next message. I have someone working on the time series plots right now. Will send them later today. Phil Jones wrote: Russ, Thanks for the update. As we have the 1979-2004 trend plot, can we also get the time series one for max/min/dtr for 1950-2004 soonish - as soon as the draft. It will likely be in the draft, probably. Cheers Phil At 15:02 08/08/2005, you wrote: Phil: Just a quick update -- the writing progresses well, but I won't have a draft for you today. Tomorrow with a little good fortune! -- Russell S. Vose, Chief Climate Analysis Branch National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Phone: (828) 271-4311 Fax: (828) 271-4328 E-mail: Russell.Vose@noaa.gov 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Russell S. Vose, Chief Climate Analysis Branch National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Phone: (828) 271-4311 Fax: (828) 271-4328 E-mail: Russell.Vose@noaa.gov 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Russell S. Vose, Chief Climate Analysis Branch National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Phone: (828) 271-4311 Fax: (828) 271-4328 E-mail: Russell.Vose@noaa.gov 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Russell S. Vose, Chief Climate Analysis Branch National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Phone: (828) 271-4311 Fax: (828) 271-4328 E-mail: Russell.Vose@noaa.gov 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------