On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:14:02 +0100, "Paul Stoffers" <
pst_...@hetnet.nl>
wrote:
>Does anyone feel inclined to tell them?
I did too.
Peter Weiss, Public Information Manager of AGU, allowed me to publish
his answer here:
" ... Thank you very much for pointing out our blunder. Apparently, a
unit given as "m" for meters got translated into "miles" (and then
"kilometers") when the article got repackaged for press distribution
(the version that gets posted on AGU's News Room web pages. Please see
the following link for the article as it appears --correctly, I might
add -- on the journal's website:
http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/highlights/highlights.cgi?action=show&doi=10.1029/2011WR011155&jc=wr
).
The repackaging is pretty much a mechanical process (unlike the actual
writing of the article), but that's really no excuse for our not having
performed a reality check as the unit was converted from an abbreviation
into something fully named. Although we can't fix this over the weekend,
we will make certain it gets corrected on Monday.
Many thanks again for calling our attention to the error (which for me
is troubling, but also so absurd that I couldn't help but laugh at the
thought of such a ridiculously huge dam -- you too?) ..."
They have fixed it in the meantime.
Greetings from Germany
Joerg
--
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