cc: Edward Cook date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:52:29 -0400 from: Edward Cook subject: Re: Monsoon reconstruction paper to: Phil Jones Hi Phil, Looking forward to the new TS 3.0(!!!!) and the new scPDSI calculated from it. How will Gerard determine where it is rubbish? From my own perspective, I would prefer to determine that myself. Will I send the paper to Climate Audit? Have I gone senile or insane? Since not yet on both accounts, nah! I agree that Venus is better than Mars for those bastards. It is more hell-like by all accounts. The audit folks might want to debate the existence of greenhouse warming there as well. Not even Bush would recommend sending astronauts to Venus. Mars after being bathed in cosmic rays for months to get there is okay by his logic. Cheers, Ed ================================== Dr. Edward R. Cook Doherty Senior Scholar and Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Palisades, New York 10964 USA Email: [1]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu Phone: 845-365-8618 Fax: 845-365-8152 ================================== On May 15, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Phil Jones wrote: Ed, No worries. There are no data over the high Himalaya for most of the period before 1950. The high-res grids relax to the climatology, which doesn't go well in the scPDSI calculations. We will have a new version of CRU TS soon, which after much deliberation we've decided to call CRU TS 3.0 !!!! Gerard now has a permanent job at KNMI and he will be calculating scPDSI at some point (as he did before, but also with a Penman PET calculation as well as Thornthwaite). He's going to also mask out the areas of the world where it calculates rubbish. I'll look at the paper if/when I get some time. I'm sure it is up to the usual standard. When it comes out, send it off to Climate Audit. This will take the pressure of me and Keith. Those people should all be sent off to Mars, better still Venus ! Cheers Phil At 15:35 15/05/2007, you wrote: Hi all, I am attaching a paper that I have submitted to The Palaeobotanist (based on an invited talk at a meeting in Lucknow last November) on the experimental reconstruction of the summer monsoon over India and the Tibetan Plateau from tree rings in High Asia. Much more needs to be done on the topic, but it shows the potential anyway. Since the paper uses scPDSI based on CRU TS 2.1 data, and I was somewhat critical of said data prior to 1950 over the Tibetan Plateau, I thought you should see it. FYI and any comments are appreciated. Cheers, Ed  ================================== Dr. Edward R. Cook Doherty Senior Scholar and Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Palisades, New York 10964 USA Email: [2]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu Phone: 845-365-8618 Fax: 845-365-8152 ================================== Hi all, I am attaching a paper that I have submitted to The Palaeobotanist (based on an invited talk at a meeting in Lucknow last November) on the experimental reconstruction of the summer monsoon over India and the Tibetan Plateau from tree rings in High Asia. Much more needs to be done on the topic, but it shows the potential anyway. Since the paper uses scPDSI based on CRU TS 2.1 data, and I was somewhat critical of said data prior to 1950 over the Tibetan Plateau, I thought you should see it. FYI and any comments are appreciated. Cheers, Ed ================================== Dr. Edward R. Cook Doherty Senior Scholar and Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Palisades, New York 10964 USA Email: [3]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu Phone: 845-365-8618 Fax: 845-365-8152 ================================== 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 [4]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------