cc: yiou@asterix.saclay.cea.fr, yiou@atmos.ucla.edu
date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:40:42 +0200
from: Thomas Stocker <stocker@climate.unibe.ch>
subject: Invitation
to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk


Dear Keith

You may remember that Pascal Yiou, Michael Ghil and I are organising a
NATO ASI in Les Houches. The date has now been confirmed and funding
is well under way. The dates are Jan, 5-17th, 1998 and the title of
the Study Institute is "Mathematical and Physical Tools for Climate
Dynamics". 

When Pascal asked you lst time you had a conflict of date. I would
like to ask you again, whether you'd be interested to participate. I
should say that it will be quite a unique setting in which you and
your tree ring research would fit in perfectly. For some uptodate
information regarding the ASI please consult 

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~yiou/houches98

You will see on these pages that Christian Pfister is a speaker for
tree rings. This is a mix-up at the time the html was composed; please
ignore it. If he comes, he will speak about historical archives, of
course.

Travel expenses, accommodation would be covered and your participation
would consist of 1 to 2 90 minute lectures. The only "snag" is that
lecturers are expected to prepare lecture notes which are then
published in the famous NATO volumes.

Let me say, once again, that your contribution to our NATO ASI would
be indeed very valuable and nicely show the link between the
mathematical models and the high-resolution proxy data. It would also
be an excellent opportunity to familiarize the climate dynamicists
with real data and the sophisticated statistical methods that are used
to distill the dynamics from them.

I am looking forward to your reply.

Best Regards,

Thomas

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