cc: Edward Cook <drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu>
date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:52:29 -0400
from: Edward Cook <drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu>
subject: Re: Monsoon reconstruction paper
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Hi Phil,

   Looking forward to the new TS 3.0(!!!!) and the new scPDSI calculated from it. How will
   Gerard determine where it is rubbish? From my own perspective, I would prefer to determine
   that myself. Will I send the paper to Climate Audit? Have I gone senile or insane? Since
   not yet on both accounts, nah! I agree that Venus is better than Mars for those bastards.
   It is more hell-like by all accounts. The audit folks might want to debate the existence of
   greenhouse warming there as well.  Not even Bush would recommend sending astronauts to
   Venus. Mars after being bathed in cosmic rays for months to get there is okay by his logic.

   Cheers,

   Ed
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   Dr. Edward R. Cook
   Doherty Senior Scholar and
   Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory
   Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
   Palisades, New York 10964  USA
   Email: [1]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu
   Phone: 845-365-8618
   Fax: 845-365-8152
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   On May 15, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Phil Jones wrote:

      Ed,
        No worries. There are no data over the high Himalaya for most of the period
      before 1950. The high-res grids relax to the climatology, which doesn't
      go well in the scPDSI calculations.
        We will have a new version of CRU TS soon, which after much
      deliberation we've decided to call CRU TS 3.0 !!!!
         Gerard now has a permanent job at KNMI and he will be
      calculating scPDSI at some point (as he did before, but also
      with a Penman PET calculation as well as Thornthwaite).
      He's going to also mask out the areas of the world where it
      calculates rubbish.
        I'll look at the paper if/when I get some time. I'm sure it
      is up to the usual standard.
         When it comes out, send it off to Climate Audit. This will
      take the pressure of me and Keith. Those people should all be
      sent off to Mars, better still Venus !
      Cheers
      Phil
     At 15:35 15/05/2007, you wrote:

     Hi all,
     I am attaching a paper that I have submitted to The Palaeobotanist
     (based on an invited talk at a meeting in Lucknow last November) on
     the experimental reconstruction of the summer monsoon over India and
     the Tibetan Plateau from tree rings in High Asia. Much more needs to
     be done on the topic, but it shows the potential anyway. Since the
     paper uses scPDSI based on CRU TS 2.1 data, and I was somewhat
     critical of said data prior to 1950 over the Tibetan Plateau, I
     thought you should see it. FYI and any comments are appreciated.
     Cheers,
     Ed
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     Dr. Edward R. Cook
     Doherty Senior Scholar and
     Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory
     Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
     Palisades, New York 10964  USA
     Email: [2]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu
     Phone: 845-365-8618
     Fax: 845-365-8152
     ==================================
     Hi all,
     I am attaching a paper that I have submitted to The Palaeobotanist (based on an invited
     talk at a meeting in Lucknow last November) on the experimental reconstruction of the
     summer monsoon over India and the Tibetan Plateau from tree rings in High Asia. Much
     more needs to be done on the topic, but it shows the potential anyway. Since the paper
     uses scPDSI based on CRU TS 2.1 data, and I was somewhat critical of said data prior to
     1950 over the Tibetan Plateau, I thought you should see it. FYI and any comments are
     appreciated.
     Cheers,
     Ed
     ==================================
     Dr. Edward R. Cook
     Doherty Senior Scholar and
     Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory
     Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
     Palisades, New York 10964  USA
     Email: [3]drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu
     Phone: 845-365-8618
     Fax: 845-365-8152
     ==================================

     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    [4]p.jones@uea.ac.uk
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     UK
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