From: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@meteo.psu.edu>
To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Ruherford et al 2005
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:49:23 -0400
Reply-to: mann@psu.edu
Cc: Scott Rutherford <srutherford@rwu.edu>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

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thanks Tim,

I'm saddened to hear that this bozo is bothering you too, in addition to 
NCAR, NSF, NAS, IPCC and everyone else. Rest assured that I  won't ever 
respond to McIntyre should he ever contact me, but I will forward you 
any email he sends related to this. I assume Scott feels the same way...

I hope you're having as nice a spring as we are here. See you in June?

mike

p.s. we have some interesting new reconstructionbased on RegEM using a 
greatly expanded multiproxy network (which includes the MXD data).  I 
hope to send you guys shortly. It is our hope that you'll consider being 
co-authors. This to come soon...


Tim Osborn wrote:

> Hi Scott and Mike,
>
> as lead author and co-author on the Rutherford et al. paper, I thought 
> I'd let you know that we are dealing with some requests for the MXD 
> data set used in this paper, including the one copied below from 
> McIntyre.  We should have got this organised a bit quicker but we will 
> (eventually!) get the data and its description available for 
> interested parties.  So if you get any more requests for the MXD data 
> that were used in our joint paper, please pass them on to me.
>
> Hope everything's well with you,
>
> Tim
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:08:39 +0100
>> To: "Steve McIntyre" <stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca>
>> From: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: Ruherford et al 2005
>> Cc: "Andrew Weaver" <jclim@uvic.ca>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
>>
>> Dear Steve,
>>
>> I have just finished responding to Science about your latest request 
>> to them concerning our recent paper, so I can now turn to your 
>> request copied below.
>>
>> I can answer your first request immediately:
>>
>> The MXD data used in Rutherford et al. were *derived* from the 
>> Schweingruber network, but aren't actually the raw site-by-site data 
>> values.  The reason why we didn't use the latter is that the 
>> site-by-site MXD chronologies have only been processed using a 
>> "traditional" approach to standardization that removes low-frequency 
>> climate variations.  Our age-band decomposition approach (Briffa et 
>> al., 2001, JGR), which retains more low-frequency variability, had 
>> only been applied at the regional-average level.  So we gridded the 
>> site-by-site chronologies onto a 5x5 grid and added to each grid box 
>> the "missing" regional-scale low-frequency information identified by 
>> comparing the age-band and traditionally-standardized results at a 
>> regional scale.
>>
>> I will respond with information and/or data to your requests (2)-(4) 
>> soon.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> At 19:37 18/04/2006, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Tim, I presume that the sites used in the MXD network in 
>>> Rutherford et al., Journal of Climate 2005 came from the 
>>> SChweingruber network. Could you provide me with (1) confirmation as 
>>> to whether this is the case; (2) identification of the sites; (3) 
>>> the protocol for site selection from the larger Schweingruber 
>>> network; (4) a URL for any data or dataversions not available in the 
>>> Schweingruber network at WDCP.  Regards, Steve McIntyre
>>
>
> Dr Timothy J Osborn
> Climatic Research Unit
> School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
> Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
>
> e-mail:   t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
> phone:    +44 1603 592089
> fax:      +44 1603 507784
> web:      http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/
> sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm
>


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