Comments on: Quelccaya Accumulation

By: TCO

TCO — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:20:57 +0000

It’s not that it’s available to you! It’s that it is recorded as a matter of record!

gotta publish in the real journals. If not, it’s just playing around…

By: Hans Erren

Hans Erren — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:57:55 +0000

re: #6
Nature isn’t available in hardcopy anymore in Delft University Library. It’s all digital subscription these days.

When time permits I’ll submit. I only have eight hours per week for climate.

By: TCO

TCO — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:39:05 +0000

If you publish it in a peer-reviewed format, you will be forced to better work and it will be available in hard copy as a matter of record.

By: Hans Erren

Hans Erren — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:32:04 +0000

wrt 4:
It is published. http://home.casema.nl/errenwijlens/co2/quelccaya.htm More completely and to a much wider audience (and free of charge) than anybody can wish for in a “peer” reviewed journal.

As with the Quelccaya ice core data: Dr Lonnie Thompson is sitting on them, it is HIS duty to release it fully and completely, instead of spending his grants on collecting new stuff. He can easily put a student or two doing an MSc to digitize the lot.

Thompson: “Sorry I can not be more helpful on these old data sets.”

Au contraire, he SHOULD be more helpful on this old dataset. As it is one of the cornerstones of MBH98, which is THE cornerstone of IPCC TAR.

By: TCO

TCO — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:44:16 +0000

Why don’t you publish, Hans? And wrt to the old data logs. Can’t they be scanned into a pdf or faxed or something? Then someone else can transcribe them into digital data. Just pay a secretary or whatever. use some of that grant money that steve is overdue for applying for.

By: Hans Erren

Hans Erren — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:04:52 +0000

After my webserver crashed I changed host. My quelccaya study can now be found here:
http://home.casema.nl/errenwijlens/co2/quelccaya.htm

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:24:36 +0000

Hans, I edited the comment to correct for this. Thanks, Steve

By: Hans Erren

Hans Erren — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:01:46 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thanks for posting. But to be honest Lonnie Thompson actually didn’t lose the information. He just didn’t see the importance of digitally archiving the observed layer thicknesses.

I would suggest digitizing the core log is still an interesting exercise for an undergraduate thesis, and 20 years overdue.