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To: Stefan Rahmstorf <rahmstorf@ozean-klima.de>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: latest draft of 2000-year section text
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:10:45 +0000
Cc: jto@u.arizona.edu,eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no, Fortunat Joos
<joos@climate.unibe.ch>,drind@giss.nasa.gov
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Hi Stefan,
Finally, I think (though here it is less clear from their paper and I
am relying on my recollection of talking to Gerd Burger) that Burger
et al. also show that the amount of noise von Storch et al. added to
create the pseudo-proxies yields a pseudo-reconstruction that has
much better verification skill than obtained by Mann et al. (1998)
for their real reconstruction. If they increase the noise added
(deteriorating the "skill" of the pseudo-proxies) until they get
similar verification statistics as Mann et al. report, then the size
of the bias gets bigger. In fact, the bias they obtain with the
higher noise but "correct" no-detrending method is actually very
similar to the bias von Storch et al. reported with lower noise but
incorrect detrending method! So where does that leave us? I don't
think there's room to put all this in. Of course the magnitude of
the bias cannot be determined from any pseudo-proxy simulation
anyway, and will be different for different models.
Cheers
Tim
Dr Timothy J Osborn
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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