date: Mon Oct 19 16:44:47 2009
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: [Fwd: D'Arrigo et al 2006]
to: Rob Wilson <rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

    This might constitute joining the Team - although as I said the Team doesn't exist!
    I doubt JGR/AGU will follow this up.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 16:35 19/10/2009, Rob Wilson wrote:

     Oh brother!!!
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     Subject: D'Arrigo et al 2006
     Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:00:21 -0400
     From: Steve McIntyre [1]<stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca>
     To: 'Colin O'Dowd' [2]<jgr@nuigalway.ie>
     CC: Rosanne D'Arrigo [3]<druidrd@ldeo.columbia.edu>
     Dear Dr O'Dowd,

     In fall 2005, I corresponded with you in your capacity as Editor, JGR seeking data for
     D'Arrigo et al 2006 (then submitted), which was being cited by IPCC WG1. In that email,
     I referred to AGU policies for data citation and data archiving
     [4]www.agu.org/pubs/data_policy.html  which requires that data cited in AGU pulications
     be located in a permanent archive.

     Despite this correspondence,  the data archive for D'Arrigo et al 2006 remains abysmally
     incomplete.  There is no  data section describing where the data sets referenced in
     their Table 1 can be located.   Indeed, for some of the regional composites, there is
     not even any information on which sites are included in the regional composite nor is
     the measurement data for individual sites available (e.g. Coastal Alaska, Central NWT
     and others.)  Nor are the "chronologies" that result from the analysis carried out in
     the paper archived.

     I request that you take steps to ensure compliance with AGU data archiving policies by
     ensuring that proper listing of the sites for each Table 1 composite is provided and
     that the measurement data for each such site is located in a public archive.

     There is also an important error in the description of a key series.  For the RCS
     chronology labelled "POL", core counts are shown for the Polar Urals site, while the RCS
     chronology actually shown is from a different site entirely (Yamal), which has much
     lower replication in the modern period.

     Regards,
     Steve McIntyre

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