cc: Scott D Woodruff , worley@ucar.edu, Gil Compo , Phil Jones , Masao Kanamitsu , Tara Ansell , David Jones , Philip Woodworth date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:34:24 -0600 from: Gil Compo subject: Re: Request for input to: alexeyk@ldeo.columbia.edu Alexey Kaplan wrote on 7/9/07 3:08 PM: > Dear Scott, Steve, and Gil, > > As a new member for the CLIVAR's "Processes, Observations, Synthesis" > (POS) panel, I was asked by our chairman (who is Mike Alexander) to > cover at the panel meeting (which is in 2 weeks) the issues of > obtaining/digitizing historical climate data. I wonder if you could > point me towards any recent report/documents/website which I could use > as an authoritative source on the current state of these activities. > And/or please let me know if you want any particular issues relevant > to this topic brought to the attention of the POS panel or CLIVAR > summit. Mike also hinted that, if needed, CLIVAR panels can draft > letters to the government or international agencies with > requests/recommendations. Let me know. > > Another question is, with the retirement of Joe Elms, who would be a > right contact on the terrestrial climate data side? I've been in touch > with Karen Andsager recently: is she a right contact to get the entire > picture from? > > With subsurface ocean the issue seems easy: I'll ask to Levitus what > he thinks. > > Any input from you guys will be attended to most dutifully. > > Hope all is well with each of you, > Alexey > Dear Alexey, I think you have gotten a pretty good set of responses. My only additional 2 bits are. 1- CMDP, contact Tom Ross 2-Get your new group to please support the GCOS AOPC/OOPC Surface Pressure Working Group request to the DWD (Reinhard Zoellner ) to exchange their historical marine data with ICOADS as soon as possible. Whatever subset they are will to exchange will be a useful addition, particularly anything prior to 1948. 3. Exchanging South American data pre-1948 has been very difficult outside of Chile (thanks to CDMP). We need some good link with someone who is interested in seeing the subdaily data for this region recovered. 4. Scientific expedition data needs a home. It is neither all land data or all marine data (take the Byrd Antarctica expedition data as an example: many ships from New Zealand, data from the ice shelf, data from the continent). I think that a push to get all polar scientific expedition data digitized would be very useful as someone was going to one or the fairly often throughout the 20th century at least. David Bromwich had suggested this to me for Antarctica in particular, and I think it is a good idea. Let me know if I can be of any more help, best wishes, gil -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gil Compo, Research Scientist, CIRES University of Colorado Mail : CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center NOAA Physical Sciences Division Earth System Research Laboratory 325 Broadway R/PSD1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328 Email: compo@colorado.edu Phone: (303) 497-6115 Fax: (303) 497-6449 http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/gilbert.p.compo +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea" R. Heber