date: Wed Nov 15 14:08:47 2006 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: Mitrie to: "Nanne Weber" sure thing Nanne - we can also discuss the subject of selecting proxy predictors (and the ambiguous overlap in Martin's analysis) - look forward to it best wishes Keith At 13:57 15/11/2006, you wrote: can we take some time to talk about this when you are in Amsterdam next week? Best, Nanne Keith Briffa wrote: Between you and I , I believe there may be problems with the analysis of the Bristlecone data. We can talk by phone about this Keith At 08:56 13/11/2006, you wrote: Martin Juckes wrote: I'm going to send an email to Prof. North of the NAS panel to ask if he really meant "don't use bristlecones", as he is quoted by McIntyre. I talked with Bette Otto-Bliesner a few weeks ago. She was a Panel member and said that they had asked a tree-ring specialist and he had adviced not to use BCpines. Not a very deep argument. The report is available I think, but it is not final yet. Keith, what do you think about this? Does anyone know where I can get hold of the categorisation of the Sheep Mountain trees used by Graybill and Idso (ca534.rwl from the WDC for paleoclimatology I think) into "strip-bark" and "full-bark"? I've sent an email to the WDC query address. ask Graybill and/or Idso themselves? Nanne -------------------------------------------------------------- Zie ook/see also: [1]http://www.knmi.nl/maildisclaimer.html -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Zie ook/see also: [3]http://www.knmi.nl/maildisclaimer.html -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [4]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/