From: Kevin Trenberth <trenbert@ucar.

edu>
To: Grant Foster <tamino_9@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ENSO blamed over warming - paper in JGR
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:34:59 -0600
Cc: p.jones@uea.ac.uk, "J. Salinger" <j.salinger@auckland.ac.nz>, James Annan
<jdannan@jamstec.go.jp>, j.renwick@niwa.co.nz, Mike Mann <mann@meteo.psu.edu>,
Gavin Schmidt <gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov>, b.mullan@niwa.co.nz

Hi Grant,
I have been tied up with other things. In looking at the paper some questions.
1) In Fig 1, why is the scale zero to 2? Normally a filter would be scaled to
have a
response function zero to 1.
2) In Fig 2 and 3 what are the units of "power"? It is not in the caption. Are
these
normalized spectra so that the area under the curve is unity? My guess is that
this is the
case and hence the amplification at ENSO bands. But it is important to say this
and
perhaps point out. Maybe the captions are sufficient? Add something like:
The spectra
have been normalized to have unit variance, which relatively inflates the values
in the 0.2
to 0.5 frequency band. In a couple of places in text add "normalized" before
"power
spectrum" such as 2 lines above Fig 3 in the JGR set version.
3) A minor point: in the x= sin(2*pi*vt) I would be inclined to add an
amplitude which
would then be included also in eq (1) on RHS emphasizing how the amplitude is
changed.
[My own preference would be to call the amplitude A and the A you have R (for
response
function)]. However it is fine as is.
Thanks
Kevin
Grant Foster wrote:

Gentlemen,
Well, I got some free time and it didn't take as long as I expected. Attached
are:
comment.zip Comment in preprint form
draft.zip Comment in draft form (for submission)
freeform.zip Comment NOT as preprint or draft, with larger font and double-
wide graphs
I suggest we don't circulate it until folks have had one further day to check.
And
double check and triple-check. If we don't hear an objection by tomorrow
morning, I
suggest we submit it to JGR and feel free to circulate it.
So -- this is your last chance to suggest changes before submission, or to
suggest
restraint in circulation.
Sincerely,
Grant

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