Monthly Archives: August 2005

Crowley on Zhu [1973]

Aug 3, 2005 – 5:31 PM

One of the big selling points of Crowley and Lowery [2000] was the “non-synchroneity of temperature change”. One of the key series in showing this was Zhu [1973]. I located Zhu [1973] today. It was great fun, not least for Zhu crediting the teachings of Chairman Mao for inspiring his work. I even reminisce a […]

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Barton "Op Ed"

Aug 2, 2005 – 12:15 PM

US Congressman Joe Barton expressed some thoughts here (link courtesy of Jerry Brennan).

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MBH98 Source Code: Status Report

Aug 2, 2005 – 8:59 AM

I reported recently on that the recently archived (July 2005) source code multiproxy.f shows that the cross-validation R2 statistic was calculated and not reported. Today, I’m merely going to summarize some collation details from my inspection of the code, listing input files, output files and providing a lexicon of variables. The source code requires a […]

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Preisendorfer on Centering "Conventions"

Aug 1, 2005 – 6:59 AM

In our GRL article, we pointed out that MBH98 had misrepresented their principal components methodology as being "conventional", when it wasn’t. At realclimate , they argued that it was an alternative centering "convention".

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