date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:21:15 +0000
from: Ian Harris <i.harris@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: data access
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi Keith,

On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Keith Briffa wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:37:25 -0500
>> To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>,
>>         Michael Oppenheimer <omichael@Princeton.EDU>,
>>         Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Keith Briffa 
>> <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>,
>>         <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>, <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>,
>>         Tom Wigley <wigley@meeker.UCAR.EDU>,
>>         tom crowley <tom@ocean.tamu.edu>, Gabi Hegerl 
>> <hegerl@duke.edu>,
>>         Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>, rbradley@geo.umass.edu,
>>         mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu
>> From: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
>> Subject: Fwd: Re: data access

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>>> In order to facilitate any attempt to reproduce our results we are 
>>> now taking a further step beyond those normally required in the 
>>> publication of such research. We are working with Nature to provide 
>>> the MBH98 proxy data set in a more  transparent, user-friendly 
>>> format than that set up in 2002,

Well at least he implicitly acknowledges the labyrinthine nature of the 
existing site!

Aaaaaand it's obviously not just me having trouble with it :-)

>>>  including additional documentation, fixing of minor typos in the 
>>> descriptions of different datasets, and providing some additional 
>>> minor methodological details of the MBH98 analysis. We are also 
>>> providing the full raw instrumental University of East 
>>> Anglia/Climatic Research Unit surface temperature dataset 1854-1993 
>>> (Briffa and Jones, 1992), because CRU has since updated their 
>>> surface temperature dataset, and no longer archives the version that 
>>> we used when we began our study in the mid 1990s.

Ooh! Are we being scolded?

Needless to say, I have this work on a medium priority. There's plenty 
of comparatively urgent work for HOLSMEER!

By the way Keith - any more news or thoughts regarding possible PhD 
directions?

Cheers

Harry
Ian "Harry" Harris
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR2 4HG
United Kingdom

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