From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:49:23 -0400
To	Tim Osborn
CC	Scott Rutherford, Keith Briffa, Phil Jones
Subject	Re: Fwd: Re: Ruherford et al 2005
thanks Tim, I'm saddened to hear that this bozo is bothering you too, in addition to NCAR, NSF, NAS, IPCC and everyone else. Rest assured that I won't ever respond to McIntyre should he ever contact me, but I will forward you any email he sends related to this. I assume Scott feels the same way... I hope you're having as nice a spring as we are here. See you in June? mike p.s. we have some interesting new reconstructionbased on RegEM using a greatly expanded multiproxy network (which includes the MXD data). I hope to send you guys shortly. It is our hope that you'll consider being co-authors. This to come soon... Tim Osborn wrote: > Hi Scott and Mike, > > as lead author and co-author on the Rutherford et al. paper, I thought > I'd let you know that we are dealing with some requests for the MXD > data set used in this paper, including the one copied below from > McIntyre. We should have got this organised a bit quicker but we will > (eventually!) get the data and its description available for > interested parties. So if you get any more requests for the MXD data > that were used in our joint paper, please pass them on to me. > > Hope everything's well with you, > > Tim > > >> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:08:39 +0100 >> To: "Steve McIntyre" >> From: Tim Osborn >> Subject: Re: Ruherford et al 2005 >> Cc: "Andrew Weaver" , Keith Briffa >> >> Dear Steve, >> >> I have just finished responding to Science about your latest request >> to them concerning our recent paper, so I can now turn to your >> request copied below. >> >> I can answer your first request immediately: >> >> The MXD data used in Rutherford et al. were *derived* from the >> Schweingruber network, but aren't actually the raw site-by-site data >> values. The reason why we didn't use the latter is that the >> site-by-site MXD chronologies have only been processed using a >> "traditional" approach to standardization that removes low-frequency >> climate variations. Our age-band decomposition approach (Briffa et >> al., 2001, JGR), which retains more low-frequency variability, had >> only been applied at the regional-average level. So we gridded the >> site-by-site chronologies onto a 5x5 grid and added to each grid box >> the "missing" regional-scale low-frequency information identified by >> comparing the age-band and traditionally-standardized results at a >> regional scale. >> >> I will respond with information and/or data to your requests (2)-(4) >> soon. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> At 19:37 18/04/2006, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>> Dear Tim, I presume that the sites used in the MXD network in >>> Rutherford et al., Journal of Climate 2005 came from the >>> SChweingruber network. Could you provide me with (1) confirmation as >>> to whether this is the case; (2) identification of the sites; (3) >>> the protocol for site selection from the larger Schweingruber >>> network; (4) a URL for any data or dataversions not available in the >>> Schweingruber network at WDCP. Regards, Steve McIntyre >> > > Dr Timothy J Osborn > Climatic Research Unit > School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia > Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK > > e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk > phone: +44 1603 592089 > fax: +44 1603 507784 > web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ > sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm > -- Michael E. Mann Associate Professor Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC) Department of Meteorology Phone: (814) 863-4075 503 Walker Building FAX: (814) 865-3663 The Pennsylvania State University email: mann@psu.edu University Park, PA 16802-5013 http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/faculty/mann.htm