date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:34:06 +0000
from: Ian Harris <i.harris@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Vapor pressure in CRU TS 2.10
to: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi Tim,

Yup - all the decadal 2.10 files for WET and VAP had been swapped.  
And rescaled to look like they ought to. Inexplicable.

Harry

On 6 Nov 2007, at 16:34, Tim Osborn wrote:

> Hi Harry -- still catching up on my emails... is the query below  
> now resolved because the wet-day counts and vapour pressures had  
> been interchanged (or some explanation like that)????  Cheers, Tim
>
> At 08:08 24/10/2007, Ian Harris wrote:
>> Phil, Tim
>>
>> Any ideas? I think he means 'Northern Eurasia' rather than 'polar'.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "Wladimir J. Alonso" <alonsow@mail.nih.gov>
>>> Date: 23 October 2007 19:13:20 BDT
>>> Cc: i.harris@uea.ac.uk
>>> Subject: Vapor pressure in CRU TS 2.10
>>>
>>> Dear Ian,
>>>
>>> I am using the dataset CRU TS 2.10 on an ongoing study on worldwide
>>> diversity of palms, and we noticed that there is something a bit
>>> strange
>>> about the vapor pressure. As you can see in the attached image
>>> generated
>>> from one month (Jan/1981) picked up at random from the TS 2.10
>>> dataset, the vapor pressure present high values near the polar
>>> regions. This is in contrast with the data you present at http://  
>>> www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~markn/jpg/glo_vap.gif
>>>
>>> I would much appreciate if you could help us on this.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> Wladimir
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Wladimir J. Alonso (MSc, PhD)
>>> International Epidemiology and Population Studies
>>> Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
>>> Phone: +55-48 9148 7830, +55  48 3233 6172
>>> e-mail: alonsow@mail.nih.gov, wladimir@origem.info
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian "Harry" Harris
>> Climatic Research Unit
>> School of Environmental Sciences
>> University of East Anglia
>> Norwich NR4 7TJ
>> United Kingdom
>>
>>
>
> Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow
> 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/
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>
>

Ian "Harry" Harris
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom


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