date: Thu Jun  2 14:46:30 2005
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: 3 things
to: trenbert@ucar.edu

      Kevin,


     1. The UK Govt have agreed to pay all my visit to Boulder next year ! We can agree
    dates much nearer the time.  Never known them respond so quickly !
    2. I'd begun to go through 3.4, so will attempt to finish that now that Brian has sent
    some material.
    3. I got the latest data for the RSS 2LT equiv. from Carl Mears (for the globe 70S-85N -
   omits
     also a few high elev 2.5 deg squares over the Himalayas). Been quickly experimenting
    with this for a figure for CQ2 - as our CQs all had no figures in the ZOD. As we have
    these series plotted in many ways in 3.4 and 3.2, have a look at the attachment.
    Attempting to plot them in a different way.  We've not plotted the msu this way,
    nor the surface with such a tight smoother.
     I need to do more on this (getting colour in, but I had a plot like this to hand). The
     histogram is the RSS data. The thinner of the two smooth lines is RSS smoothed
    and the thicker is HadCRUT2v (the global surface - adjusted by +0.20 to bring it to
    the RSS 1979-98 based period). Smoothing is Gaussian based on roughly 24 months.
     Probably better if I subtract 0.20 from RSS. Either way, the smooth line shows
    greater fluctuations in RSS than the surface, for the ENSO events and for the
    Pinatubo period.
     Won't do any more on this till I get back. Better to get to Brian's 3.4 fo rthe
    last day and a half.
    Cheers
    Phil

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