date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:03:16 +0000
from: Gerard van der Schrier <schrier@knmi.nl>
subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: TP Water - evapotranspiration advice?]
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Dear Phil,
   Many thanks for keeping me updated on the PET work of Aiguo Dai and friends.
   Also good to hear that Harry is nearing the end of his struggle with the updating. I'll
   contact him to get the data, and then we can start doing some of the calculations.
   One of my plans, next to analysing a scPDSI signal in the updated CRU data, is to see if it
   is possible to build a European Drought Monitor - more-or-less similar to the US Drought
   Monitor ( [1]http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html ) - on the basis of the ECA&D
   dataset. What do you think?
   The ECA&D dataset is (in my opinion) a bit of a mess. The data is not updated frequently
   enough and the numerics which should keep the data and the calculations of the indices
   up-to-data are slow and cumbersome. Hopefully, this is sorted out before the new year
   starts.
   Cheers, Gerard

     Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:55:46 -0600
     From: Aiguo Dai [2]<adai@ucar.edu>
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     Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: TP Water - evapotranspiration advice?]
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     Kevin and Phil,
     Attached is a paper (just submitted to GRL) on the effects of different PET
     parameterizations on the simulated soil moisture and
     PDSI over Australia and New Zealand. Tom Karl's group at NCDC is also interested in
     looking at this in a bit more detail.
     Aiguo
     Kevin Trenberth wrote:

     FYI
     Kevin
      Gerard,

                Just got this paper. I thought it might of interest. It is submitted to GRL.
       Harry should have finished version 3 of the high-res dataset by the end of next week.
      Cheers
      Phil

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