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date: Fri Mar  7 10:06:26 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: David Parker's review
to: santer1@llnl.gov, santer1@llnl.gov

    Ben et al,
      Useful reviews, even if they are very favourable. I hope we're nearly there
    and you can put this to bed over the Easter break - well we do in the UK!
      It is more than being bowled middle stump - more like hit wicket or
    running your fellow batsman out. Totally self inflicted.
      It might take you a while to submit this with IJC's new online submission
    process. You'll have to add in all the email addresses, but it shouldn't be
    as onerous as JGR's would have been. We should all then get an email to
    say you've submitted it - when you have.
       I found it amazing that DCPS07 had used 79-99 for the models and then
    79-04 for the obs. Hope this is also in the text as well as the caption for Fig 7.

   Cheers
    Phil
   At 00:22 07/03/2008, Ben Santer wrote:

     Dear folks,
     As Melissa pointed out, I mistakenly appended the NOAA ARL review (rather than David
     Parker's review) at the end of my email. Sorry about that. David's comments are now
     reproduced below.
     With best regards,
     Ben
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     EXCERPT FROM EMAIL OF MARCH 5, 2008 FROM PETER THORNE:
     3. David Parker has done internal review and is happy so I'll send
     current version to DEFRA for approval. He had a number of minor
     comments. He also says he thinks your section 6 is good and I'm worrying
     over nothing. David tends to be a very good judge on such matters. His
     exact phrase was "It's nice and simple so don't complicate it. You've
     bowled DCPS07 out middle stump!"
     I reproduce his minor comments below:
     a. p. 6 end of first full para he thinks constitute should be plural
     constitutes
     b. p. 11 last sentence suggests: "... troposhere roughly follows the
     moist adiabatic profile set ..."
     c. p. 17 First full para he suggests removal of "As this brief
     introductions shows,"
     d. p. 19 between eq 4 and eq 5 suggests average time index rather than
     time-average index and insertion of e(t) after residuals.
     e. p. 28 second line says should be adjusted standard error
     f. p. 28 last full sentence thinks the underlined not should come before
     all models.
     g. p. 31 he thinks "there are 20 different combinations of realizations"
     is confusing and that insertion of something akin to (this doubles up
     the comparisons because e.g d(2,5)=-d(5,2)) would be useful. Not sure I
     agree on this.
     h. p. 33 he notes that 0.86 is also close to T2 lag-1 auto-corr and that
     from RSS and I think it may be worth stating this here to make clear
     that this choice is very sensible.
     i. Start of section 8 he suggests Several recent comparisons
     j. Page 65, he thinks should start in Panel A and not in panel B
     k. Figure 7 caption: The yellow envelope represents 2 sigma SE ...
     l. Table 2 caption says SENS1 and SENS2 whereas the table is SEN1 and
     SEN2
     m. He thinks that in the key to Figure 7 the grey shading should be
     denoted as "2 sigma std. dev. of model ensemble mean trends. I'm not
     sure on this.
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