Information Services Directorate
Mr. John Wilson
Library
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Email
: [University of East Anglia request email]
Tel: +44 (0) 1603 593 523
13 January 2010
Fax: +44 (0) 1603 591 010
Web: http://www.uea.ac.uk
Dear Mr Wilson
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
(Our Ref: FOI_09-194)
Your request for information received on 11 December 2009 has now been
considered and some of the information requested is enclosed herewith. It is,
however, not possible to meet all elements of your request.
In accordance with Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts
as a partial Refusal Notice, and I am not obliged to supply exempted information.
The reasons for the non-disclosure are as stated below:
Exemption
Reason
s.1(1)(a) Right to be informed if
Information not held
information held
s.12 Cost of compliance
The cost of finding & assembling the
exceeds appropriate limit
information will exceed the appropriate limit
For your convenience, I have reproduced your request in the attachment to this letter
and indicated our response to each element of your request.
We do not hold a record of those organisations which have been sent a copy of the
data set. It is therefore not possible for us to provide this information.
A confirmation of who has been sent the data set may be able to be extracted via a
detailed search of our email archives. However, we estimate the amount of work
required to complete this task would exceed the statutory appropriate limit.
I regret that your request will not be met in full but if you have any further information
needs in the future then please contact me.
You have the right of appeal against this decision. If you wish to appeal please set
out in writing your grounds of appeal and send to me at:
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
Telephone: 0160 359 3523
E-mail: [University of East Anglia request email]
You also have a subsequent right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 745
www.ico.gov.uk
Yours sincerely
Raymond Scott
Strategy Development Manager
University of East Anglia
Response to Freedom of Information request (FOI_09-194)
I write with reference to the global temperature dataset maintained by the Climate
Research Unit based at the UEA (The dataset known a the CRU or HAD/CRUT
record). This dataset is itself based upon raw temperature data which is currently or
was held by the CRU. I would be grateful if you could provide a list of institutions and
other persons with whom this raw (unprocessed) data has been shared since
January 1st 2005
Since the beginning of 2005, the only group we have shared the whole of the CRU
station temperature archive with is the Met Office Hadley Centre.
A partial set of the data was sent to Georgia Tech in Jan 2009.