date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:11:02 -0600
from: Kevin Trenberth <trenbert@ucar.edu>
subject: [Fwd: RE: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125]
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Phil
   I see you area co-author on this paper submitted to Nature which I am not reviewing as you
   can see.  Thought you should know or our work though: attached.
   Kevin
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   Subject: RE: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125
      Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:50:26 +0100
      From: Mossinger, Juliane [1]<J.Mossinger@nature.com>
        To: Kevin Trenberth [2]<trenbert@ucar.edu>

Dear Kevin

Thank you for your offer to review the paper by John Milliman and
colleagues for Nature. Given that you have a paper on the same topic
under review, however, we feel that it may be best to ask another
referee to assess the paper. Thanks very much for letting me know about
the submission of your work to the Journal of Climate.

Best regards

Juliane

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Trenberth [[4]mailto:trenbert@ucar.edu]
Sent: 16 July 2007 15:10
To: Mossinger, Juliane
Subject: Re: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125

Hi Juliane

I feel a bit conflicted as we have a paper on the same topic already
submitted to Journal of Climate:
Dai, A., T. Qian and K. E. Trenberth, 2007: Changes in continental
discharge from 1949-2004. J. Climate. Submitted.

I may be able to review it if you get it to me today, monday, as I would

have to do it today.  I leave for New Zealand on Thursday until 10
August and will not be available.

My colleague Aiguo Dai would also be appropriate as a reviewer but he is

in China until 21 July.
Kevin Trenberth

[5]j.mossinger@nature.com wrote:
> Dear Dr Trenberth
>
> A manuscript has been submitted to Nature, which we were hoping you
would be interested in reviewing. The manuscript comes from John
Milliman, Katherine Farnsworth, Laurence Smith, Phil Jones, and kehui xu
and is entitled "Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors Affecting River
Discharge To The Global Ocean, 1951-2000". Its first paragraph is pasted
below.
>
> Is this a paper that you would be able to review for us within about
two weeks? If so, please let me know as soon as possible, and I will
send instructions to you on how to access the manuscript. Failing that,
it would be helpful to us if you could suggest alternative referees.
>
> Nature's information for peer-reviewers is at
[6]www.nature.com/nature/authors/referees/index.html.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help; I look forward to hearing from
you.
>
> Best regards
>
> Juliane Mossinger
>
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> Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors Affecting River Discharge To The
Global Ocean, 1951-2000
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> John Milliman, Katherine Farnsworth, Laurence Smith, Phil Jones, and
kehui xu
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> During the last half of the 20th century, global precipitation and
cumulative water discharge from 135 representative rivers (watershed
areas ranging from 0.3 to 6300 x 10<sup>3</sup> km<sup>2</sup>) to the
global ocean remained constant, although discharge from ~40% of these
rivers individually changed by >30%. Runoff trends in many rivers were
dictated primarily by precipitation change; other than the Parana,
Mississippi, Niger and Congo, few of these rivers experienced
significant change in either parameter.  Collective runoff from many
mid-latitude rivers, in contrast, decreased by ~60%, in large part due
to damming and irrigation.  A number of high-latitude and high-altitude
rivers experienced increased runoff despite generally declining
precipitation. Poorly constrained precipitation data do not seem to
explain fully these "excess" rivers; changed seasonality in runoff,
decreased storage and/or decreased evapotranspiration also may play
important roles.
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