date: Mon Oct 20 14:40:24 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: BADC contract for production of high resolution climatic
to: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, i.harris@uea.ac.uk

    Tim, Harry,
       Whilst I'm in Iceland can you try and come up with a plan to
    get the last bit of work on getting cloud updated sorted out.
    We all know what there is to do - it's just getting it done.
       I'm more than happy to write up the paper when all
    is done.
       Not replied to Bryan.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 14:32 20/10/2008, Bryan Lawrence wrote:

     hi Phil
     Did you manage to get someone to work on this? I left off replying to give time for some
     progress!
     We're still getting invoice, and we're still not paying, and while that keeps the
     financial folk busy and happy, it's boring for those of us who get the reports :-)
     (probaby for you as well as me :-)
     It would be nice to close this up.
     If I understand correctly, we've got:
     1) some fields done
     2) some software done
     3) some fields incomplete
     4) some software incomplete
     Shall we try and setup a BADC dataset with what we've got, and see if we can get updates
     for those datasets going?  We could then pay, say, half the invoice ... (to  show
     willing). I'd rather do this than have Harry making the data available to some folk
     under the table - we do need to show to NERC that this "data management" funding has
     delivered some data to be managed ...
     Then, more importantly, what could we do to help Harry get this finished and closed up?
     Cheers
     Bryan
     On Wednesday 13 August 2008 16:07:58 Phil Jones wrote:
     >
     >   Bryan,
     >      Been away. All the fields are there except
     > cloud. Kevin Marsh knows where they are.
     >
     >   What we still have to do is two things:
     >
     >   1) Get cloud updated from 2002 - this requires some more work here. We have
     >   someone who can do this from the start of September, but only if we're not
     >   successful with another bid. The work will only
     > take about 2-4 weeks. We need to
     >   recreate lost files.
     >
     >   2) Getting the routine updating working from
     > when it currently ends in 2006. This
     >   should not take more than a couple of weeks.
     >
     >   The problem is that Harry is now working on something else.
     >
     >   Not sure where this leaves us. Harry is giving people access from here on a
     >   restricted site and keeping track of the those he does.
     >
     >   So you have most of what was promised, and we're working as best as we
     >   can on getting the rest done.
     >
     >   Cheers
     >   Phil
     >
     >
     > At 14:16 06/08/2008, Lawrence, BN (Bryan) wrote:
     > >Hi Phil/Tim
     > >
     > >Our finance department are asking us to
     > >authorise payment for the 50k project for the
     > >work we commissioned in 2006 to produce
     > >high-resolution climate data. As we have not
     > >received the dataset and associated software yet
     > >we are waiting to authorise it but more
     > >importantly, several of our users are now asking
     > >to use the up-to-date climate data.
     > >
     > >The latest update (May 08) was that Harry was
     > >working on this full time - also that the data
     > >are needed by several other projects at the CRU
     > >end (including the one that Harry is currently
     > >working on). We understand that there have been
     > >many quality issues to resolve, and that the
     > >processing and automation is also a large ongoing task.
     > >
     > >This note is to reiterate that we consider
     > >delivery of this dataset and associated software
     > >to be of high importance and to ask if you can
     > >push it up the priority list, both to complete
     > >the job, and so we can make the finance folk go away :-)
     > >
     > >Can you please let us know when you expect the
     > >data and software to be ready for delivery, and
     > >we'll advise both our contracts office and the
     > >UEA finance folk who I understand keep invoicing us :-)
     > >
     > >Cheers
     > >Bryan
     > >
     >
     > 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
     >
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     Bryan Lawrence
     Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research
     (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
     STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
     Phone +44 1235 445012; Fax ... 5848;
     Web: home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence

   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
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