date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:57:28 +0000 from: Gerard van der Schrier subject: Re: new version of ms. to: Phil Jones Hi Phil, Thanks for the updates, and thanks for going through the ms. Hopefully it won't take as long as the CC ms....... It is available via: http://www.springerlink.com/content/100247/?Content+Status=Accepted I'll contact Harry for the precip and temp. data. Have a good time in the US! Cheers, Gerard > > Gerard, > Off to the US next week, so have printed off and will read on the > flight. > I'll get back to you the week after next. > > By the way, Harry has almost finished v3 of the dataset. Dimitrios > has the Penman > PET working, so Harry just needs to run the data through this once > he's finished vapour pressure. > > So, if you want you could ask Harry for the precip and mean T fields > for PDSI > work. > > I looked at the CC web site the other day and didn't see the paper. > Thanks > for alerting me to it. > > By the way (also!), if you're interested look at papers 14 and 17 > in the online first > list of Climatic Change. These are the Wahl/Ammann and Ammann/Wahl > papers > that show that MBH98 is essentially right. > > Finally, Albert should have got a hard copy of the volume with the > WG1 report - > or he should be soon! > > Cheers > Phil > > > > At 09:47 14/09/2007, you wrote: >> Dear Phil, >> >> Quite some time ago you had a look at a ms. in which we looked at >> storminess and cold air outbreaks over Massachusetts at the end of >> the 18th-beginning 19th century. This ms. is a follow-up of the >> digitization work which is now in press with Climatic Change (finally!). >> >> Initially, I included a bit of an analysis on possible increase in >> storminess or cold air outbreaks in relation to the volcanic >> eruptions of the period (like the 1809 and 1815 eruptions). This >> analysis has been removed from the present version; it was not very >> convincing. >> >> I'd like to submit this study to GRL. Would you like to have a look >> at it? >> >> What could be nice, is that cold air outbreaks affect the >> ocean-atmosphere heat flux very strongly, and these outbreaks have a >> definite impact on strength and position of the Gulf Stream. Perhaps >> this all says something about the Gulf Stream in that period via the >> boundary conditions. I've added a brief discussion on this in the ms. >> >> Cheers, Gerard >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Gerard van der Schrier >> Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) >> dept. KS/KA >> PO Box 201 >> 3730 AE De Bilt >> The Netherlands >> schrier@knmi.nl >> +31-30-2206597 >> www.knmi.nl/~schrier >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Gerard van der Schrier Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) dept. KS/KA PO Box 201 3730 AE De Bilt The Netherlands schrier@knmi.nl +31-30-2206597 www.knmi.nl/~schrier ----------------------------------------------------------