cc: Scott Rutherford <srutherford@rwu.edu>
date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:32:20 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: J. Climate paper
to: "Malcolm Hughes" <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>, Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, Briffa Keith <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

   Malcolm/Tim/Keith,
   As I go over the comments of the reviewers on our manuscript, I realize that one thing we
   clearly have to establish is  the degree of potential overlap between the data used by
   MBH98 and the Briffa et al MXD network.
   At some level the data are clearly different--the gridding and standardization method
   applied to the MXD data underlying the Briffa et al network, if nothing else, is completely
   distinct from anything used by MBH98.
   On the other hand, MBH98 did use a certain number of density series. SEe the attached MBH98
   data list (I believe the ITRDB data with an "x" in the title are density data).
   Can we clarify which data may be in common between the two datasets?
   Thanks in advance for the help,
   Mike

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