date: Mon Jun 23 16:05:35 2008 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: Fwd: CRU TS3 features. (fwd) to: Ian Harris Harry The P time series I looked at were country means and probably the spatial averaging hid the spikes enough that they weren't such outliers. For T, you may remember that I did find results like that for some countries (Bolivia was one, I think) which probably matches this location and timing. So, yes, we did know about that. The P and T anomalies found here are pre-1950. So for QUEST they are unimportant and thus investigation cannot interrupt QUEST at this stage. But later on we can get back to pre-1950 problems with CRU TS and hopefully solve them. Tim At 15:42 23/06/2008, you wrote: Hi Tim, Please can you have a quick look at the attached doc? Did your assessment of CRU TS3.0 T and P show these spikes, I can't remember? Cheers Harry Begin forwarded message: From: David Lister Date: 20 June 2008 17:24:11 BDT To: i.harris@uea.ac.uk Cc: p.jones@uea.ac.uk Subject: CRU TS3 features. (fwd) H, This came from Jureg. Phil was not sure that Juerg has the latest versions of the grids. I thought that he may have. I made the grids available to Juerg on 01/05/08 (but I have deleted the files from the ftp disk). Were there any changes to temp. and precip. after that date. Cheers David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:13 +0200 From: Juerg Luterbacher To: d.lister@uea.ac.uk, p.jones@uea.ac.uk Subject: CRU TS3 features. Dear Phil and David I hope you are very well. First of all thanks very much for your offer using the new gridded 0.5x0.5 CRU TT and prec data. That is great and we already started using them. Please find attached a short docu where we have tried to bring up some features we have found related to south american temperature. Maybe Phil, we will have some time talking about them next week in Zuerich? best wishes and have a good weekend Juerg ------------------------------------------------------ This mail was sent through IMP at [1]http://mail.unibe.ch Ian "Harry" Harris Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom