date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:59:45 +0100
from: Ian Harris <i.harris@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Stations used by CRU in CRUTEM3
to: Clare Goodess <C.Goodess@uea.ac.uk>, Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Mike Salmon <m.salmon@uea.ac.uk>, dave lister <d.lister@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi All,

I've added my working notes from the project as a separate Word doc  
(they're pasted from a text doc so no formatting). They give an idea  
of the QC techniques employed and might be useful.. or damning.

Not sure what I can add to Phil's doc - or how to use Word's change  
tracking mechanisms!

Cheers

Harry


On 3 Sep 2007, at 14:01, Clare Goodess wrote:

> And a few more, very minor, comments from me.
>
> Clare
>
> At 13:25 03/09/2007, Tim Osborn wrote:
>> Hi Phil -- I've made some edits and comments using tracked changes  
>> in the attached file... hopefully of some use.  Cheers,  Tim
>>
>> At 13:38 30/08/2007, Phil Jones wrote:
>>>  Dear All,
>>>       I'm being forced by the FOI Act to make some aspects of the  
>>> data used by CRU
>>>  to develop CRUTEM3. I've agreed to provide the information  
>>> contained in the second file.
>>>  In order to explain this, I've written the word document. Once  
>>> you've all had a look at this,
>>>  Mike can put it on our web site when I incorporate your changes.
>>>      Can you all look at the word document and suggest changes?  
>>> You'll need to
>>>  look at the other file to see what I'm having to explain. The  
>>> main issue is that
>>>  many of the country names are missing or not now correct and  
>>> some of the
>>>  station elevations are missing or zero (for some sites in the  
>>> fUSSR). These are
>>>  not important for the gridding - which is what I'm trying to  
>>> explain.
>>>
>>>   Harry - can you recall if any of these locations (the lat/ 
>>> longs) were changed within
>>>  Brohan et al. (2006). Maybe you'll have some info about any  
>>> location changes.
>>>  I'm unsure as to whether these were incorporated into the file I  
>>> used to make
>>>  the 4167 lines.
>>>
>>>    I've told the FOI person here in the library that we'll get  
>>> this up soon.  So
>>>  hopefully we can get this up by the end of next week.
>>>
>>>    You will all notice that the years associated with each  
>>> station are missing.
>>>  These were not included in the offer I made, so they aren't  
>>> getting these pieces
>>>  of information. The years are only useful in reading the  
>>> temperature file, as they
>>>  do give the first and last years, but some stations often have  
>>> sections of missing
>>>  data.
>>>
>>>  Cheers
>>>  Phil
>>>
>>>
>>> Prof. Phil Jones
>>> Climatic Research Unit        Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
>>> School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
>>> University of East Anglia
>>> Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
>>> NR4 7TJ
>>> UK  
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> --------
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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/
>> sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm
>>
>> <crustation_details_osbornedits_goodess.doc>
> Dr Clare Goodess
> Climatic Research Unit
> School of Environmental Sciences
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich
> NR4 7TJ
> UK
>
> Tel: +44 -1603 592875
> Fax: +44 -1603 507784
> Web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
>          http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm
>
>

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


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