Monthly Archives: December 2005

The Ritson Comment: An Update

Dec 4, 2005 – 8:30 AM

In August 2005, the new editor-in-chief of GRL, Jay Famiglietti of UC, Irvine, took over control of our file after two comments, including one by Ammann (UCAR) and Wahl had been rejected by the previous editor. This is discussed here . He gave an interview to Environmental Science & Technology here in which he was […]

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AGU 2005 Draft

Dec 2, 2005 – 6:02 PM

Update: a new heavily-edited version sent to me this a.m. by Ross, edited somewhat through the day here. Ross to the rescue. Here’s a draft Powerpoint presentation for AGU. As with most first drafts, it’s pretty uneven. The topic of the session is variability, so I’ve spent the first part of the presentation on that. […]

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Crowley Unspliced

Dec 1, 2005 – 7:39 AM

As a mindless activity, I’ve re-visited the Crowley data, which we’re discussing. Among other stereotypes, out of 15 series, Crowley uses 2 bristlecones, Polar Urals, Tornetrask and Dunde. Even so, without any grafting, there’s not much hockey-stick-ness to this dataset. When you parse Crowley, you also see some very odd decisions, which result in lowering […]

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