A brief log of advice delivered in response to email queries
3 April 2009: Abed Khalil (Abedalrazq.Khalil at partnerre.com) A
reinsurance firm. Update of
the Sahel rainfall index and a discussion of decadal SST predictions.
3 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu). Update of global,
gridded land precipitation data in netCDF.
6 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu) Where to find global, gridded
air-sea fluxes in netCDF.
10 April 2009: Daniel Boyce (dboyce at dal.ca) Questions about the COADS
global SST timeseries. Changes in measurements.
10 April 2009: Dan Vimont (dvimont at wisc.edu) Where to find NetCDF
Operators (NCOs) --- sent him to http://jisao.washington.edu/data/nco/
13 April 2009: Yongshen Xu (yongsheng.xu at marine.usf.edu). Advice on
satellite estimates of precipitation over the oceans.
13 April 2009: Katrina Virts (kvirts at gmail.com) UW Atmospheric
Sciences graduate student. Advice on MJO indices
14 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) Ornithologist. Why the CMAP and GPCP
precipitation estimates differ.
15 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) Ornithologist.
Provided him with the "precipitation reconstruction" rain gauge data
in netCDF.
24 April 2009: Amato Evan (atevan at wisc.edu) Status of the Sahel
precipittation index.
24 April 2009: Phil Nott (pnott at birdpop.org) More advice on how
precipitation datasets are constructed.
29 April 2009: George Huffman (george.j.huffman at nasa.gov) George
produces the GPCP precipitation dataset. We provide a netCDF version
of the GPCP data on the WWW, and George passed on a user's appreciation for our
doing so.
4 May 2009: Arathy Menon (arathy at caos.iisc.emet.in) QBO index
advice.
21 May 2009: Panos Athanasiadis ( panos at atmos.washington.edu )
Query about GPCP daily precipitation netCDF files that we provide.
17 June 2009: Uli Spinder ( uspindle at wlgore.com ) surface wind data.
2 July 2009: Lingling Chen ( lin-ling.chen at nersc.no ) Pentad-mean
NCEP reanalysis data.
7 July 2009: Katrina Virts (kvirts at gmail.com) UW Atmospheric
Sciences graduate student. Status of GPCP; CMAP pentad data; cold
tongue index
11 July 2009: Brian Smoliak ( bsmoliak at washington.edu ) quality of
the University of East Anglia, University of Delaware, and NOAA
National Climatic Data Center gridded
surface temperature data.
26 July 2009: Liu Xin Min ( liuxinmin at hotmail.com ) Northern
Annular Mode index update.
28 July 2009: Chris Folland ( chris.folland at metoffice.gov.uk ) GPCP
pentad precipitation. "... this NetCDF data is very convenient.".
28 July 2009: Scott Sellars ( scott.sellars at noaa.gov ) Graduate
student at GFDL. Availability of HadCRUT3 temperature data.
5 August 2009: John Brooke ( jbrooke1 at columbus.rr.com ) Humanities
professor in need of an ENSO index.
13 August 2009: Yanhong Gao ( yanhong at hydro.washington.edu ) NetCDF operators.
8 September 2009: Marton Balint (Martin.Balint at unep.org) update of
Sahel precipitation figure for a United Nations Environment Programme report.
17 September 2009: Omar Aziz (omarazia at u.washington.edu).
Researcher working with Nate Mantua. What constitutes the ERSST data?
30 September 2009: Torbjørn Lorentzen (torborn.lorentzen at
bjerknes.uib.no) Updated ENSO rankings.
27 October 2009: Reza Attarzadeh (r.attarzadeh at gmail.com) Student
in Iran seeking help to read HDF format files.
6 November 2009: Bill Archibald (w.archibold at usask.edu)
Clarification on Sahel Precipitation Index.