(Part 7)

Afterward;

Remember Ian “Harry” Harris was working on a legacy program suite, not some “quick and dirty methods.” A suite of programs and datasets used by CRU for climate modeling and in use for many years. If you want to, read his 314 pages of notes that detail better than I could all of the problems he ran into trying to work with those existing legacy programs.

Does this information presented here disprove AGW? Of course not. There are many other scientific organizations besides the CRU. But it does highlight, with provable facts that the CRU in themselves have been responsible for bad data, bad programs and as we have seen by the dust up about the ignored Freedom of Information Act requests that was issued to CRU, responsible for trying to cover up their mistakes. This is bad science and unfair to all the honest scientist the world over who are diligently working on honest climate science.

Addendum:

You have to give Ian “Harry” Harris a lot of credit. Evidently he has been responsible for cleaning up a lot of the mistakes that have existed in climate based datasets in the past. This little narrative represents some of his work with NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. (National Centers for Environmental Prediction – NOAA - ncep.noaa.gov)

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1948-1957 Data Added (Ian Harris, 22 Jul 2008)
2007 Data Added (Ian Harris, 17 Apr 2008)
2006 Data Added (Ian Harris, 11 Mar 2007)
2005 Data Added (Ian Harris, 13 Jan 2006)
2004 Data Added (Ian Harris, 28 Nov 2005)
2003 Data Added (Ian Harris, 11 May 2004)
SURFACE TEMPERATURE ADDED (Ian Harris, 10 December 2003)
WARNING NOTE ADDED FOR SURFACE FLUX TEMPERATURES (Ian Harris, 10 December 2003)
ALL DATASETS UPDATED TO 2002 (Ian Harris, 23 June 2003)
LAND/SEA MASKS ADDED (Ian Harris, 16 December 2002)
Land/Sea Masks for regular and Gaussian grids have been added.
NEW WINDOW ONLINE (Ian Harris, 9 July 2002)
The new Quarter-Spherical Window (0N-90N; 90W-90E) is now in use (see table below).

The old window data (here) has now been entirely replaced.
Please address any requests for new variables to me.
BAD DATA REPLACED (Ian Harris, 23 May 2002)
The TOVS Problem has been resolved and only corrected data appears on this site.

Anyone wishing to access the old (potentially incorrect) data in order to evaluate the extent of the problem should contact me.

The last entry in that narrative is interesting.

References.

Download this essay in PDF format Download Ian Harris’ 314 pages of programmers notes in PDF format

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