cc: d.lister@uea.ac.uk
date: Fri Jul  9 09:00:57 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Reviewers' comments on draft final report
to: "Rob Wilby" <rob.wilby@environment-agency.gov.uk>

    Rob,
       Thanks for the comments. David and I will digest them all over the weekend and we'll
    await your annotated draft, which may arrive later today or Monday. Where will you be
    next week, so we can call and discuss the responses we can and can't make? As the
    project is finished David and I can only spend  a few days to a week or so revising the
    text. I hope you realise this and we'd like to do this in the next couple of weeks. We
    can't do any more work with double-mass plots or go to better ways of calculating AET.
    We can add additional references partly justifying the fixed AET values whilst also adding
    the references suggested. There are a few papers - one in Science - that show in the US
    that AET is going down, not up, even though PET is going up. There is a convoluted
    reason. I will have to revisit all this in the IPCC Chapter I'm co-ordinating.
       Also, we won't be able to go back to the EA regions about rating curves etc, but we can
   tighten
    up wording in a number of places. We can add that this was the position when we went
    to the EA. I remember improving access was your aim in getting us to do the work. So,
    we have got a few people to think in a better way.
        In all the contacts with the EA regions that David had no-one mentioned Wiski or
   Hiflow ?
    I guess the revised ratings came from the recent spells of high flows in 2000/2001.
        One final thing. I'm on a GCOS group that is writing an Implementation Plan. I'm on
    for the atmosphere, but the terrestrial people are there. They have a lot more
   difficulties
    but they talk a lot about riverflow wrt GTOS. We could mention this at some point. The EA
    should be sending long series of riverflow to GTOS (well the runoff data centre in Koblenz
    if they take on the responsibility) for a few selected catchments.
        So thanks again and we'll be in touch next week when we know where you'll be.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 14:08 08/07/2004 +0100, you wrote:

     Dear David
     Please find attached three sets of independent comments on your draft
     final report on "Reconstructed river flow series from 1860s to present"
     (SC-03/02). I have also posted you my annotated draft today. Once you
     have had a chance to digest the feedback, perhaps you'd like to give me
     a call so that we can discuss delivery of the final report? We will also
     need to arrange delivery of the reconstructed flow series.
     Best wishes, Rob.
     Dr R.L. Wilby
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