date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:38:32 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Stations used by CRU in CRUTEM3 to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,c.goodess@uea.ac.uk, m.salmon@uea.ac.uk,i.harris@uea.ac.uk,d.lister@uea.ac.uk Dear All, I'm being forced by the FOI Act to make some aspects of the data used by CRU to develop CRUTEM3. I've agreed to provide the information contained in the second file. In order to explain this, I've written the word document. Once you've all had a look at this, Mike can put it on our web site when I incorporate your changes. Can you all look at the word document and suggest changes? You'll need to look at the other file to see what I'm having to explain. The main issue is that many of the country names are missing or not now correct and some of the station elevations are missing or zero (for some sites in the fUSSR). These are not important for the gridding - which is what I'm trying to explain. Harry - can you recall if any of these locations (the lat/longs) were changed within Brohan et al. (2006). Maybe you'll have some info about any location changes. I'm unsure as to whether these were incorporated into the file I used to make the 4167 lines. I've told the FOI person here in the library that we'll get this up soon. So hopefully we can get this up by the end of next week. You will all notice that the years associated with each station are missing. These were not included in the offer I made, so they aren't getting these pieces of information. The years are only useful in reading the temperature file, as they do give the first and last years, but some stations often have sections of missing data. Cheers Phil 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\crustation_details.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\crustnsused.dat"