date: Mon Nov 26 10:03:10 2007
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: Re: south central England Oak
to: t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk

   let's discuss this before sending
   Keith

     Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:38:15 +0000
     From: Rob Wilson <rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk>
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     Hi Keith,
     that would be great.
     Yes - you have showed my your ADVANCE report and the reconstruction.
     If I remember, it was a relatively high frequency series though. My interest is more in
     low frequency trends.
     The year-to-year precipitation signal is not particularly strong in Oak, but I am
     convinced that there are some interesting low frequency trends, but to really explore
     them robustly, I need lots of data.
     Pfister is also doing some documentary work and it may be possible to combine the
     historical and TR data at some later stage.
     Looking through your PhD - which is a great piece of work I might add - and I am not
     saying that to suck up - the sites which appear to sit within our target region are:
     CRU1
     CRU2
     QB6
     QB9
     CRU3
     QB3 - this site might be a little to far west
     although the dominant signal is precipitation, our target region is roughly equal to the
     that covered by the CET record, so if you have any other relevant Oak chronologies from
     this region, that would be great.
     I would be happy to collaborate in some way if that would reduce any conflicts
     all the best
     Rob
     [1]K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk wrote:

Hi Rob
did not see any previuos email from you but it may have gone into my junk
mail folder (no pun). No problem in sending you the oak data - in fact I
thought they were in the ITRDB but Tom has just told me that he only sent
my early pine data. Incidentally, I have to say that we have already done
some work reconstructing PDSI for a western Europe area, using a single
regional chronolgy predictor produced as part of the ADVANCE work. We
never got round to publishing it but I will look it out and perhaps redo
with the ScPDSI data. Cheers
Keith

P.S. what little bird?

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