date: Tue Oct 28 15:14:56 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Fw: JCLI 2695 - Quingxiang: decision regarding your manuscript
to: <liqx@cma.gov.cn>

    Qingxiang,
       I've been through the two sets of review comments. I think both were
    written by Chinese people - as they certainly weren't written by native English
    speakers. Ren could be the second one - the first could be a Chinese
    living in the US or Canada.
       I'm not sure another journal is the way to go here. A lot of journal editors
    look down the reference list to decide on possible reviewers, so I think
    you are likely to get Ren again.  The second reviewer has also gone to great lengths
    to find many small mistakes - in defining terms and in some of the trends.
      Other journals are JGR and Int. J. Climatol. Any article ought to be in a
    mainstream journal. IJC takes a long time in reviewing - JGR would be quicker,
    but there is the issue of Ren. With JGR you can say exclude some reviewers!
       Both reviewers make a big thing about the definition of the rural (or the less than
    urban) stations. One way around this is to try and develop some rural stations that
    would be classed as rural however this was done. What I suggest here is to
    homogenize some of the OWS stations - only those from the small population
    centres. As the OWS stations have not been homogenized, it is important that they
    are - but this is a big exercise, so I'm seeing if you can do some, or some in
    a part of China.
       The other point both make is that any urban effect should be gradual. This I agree
    with, so here you need to show more of the difference series.  If there are jumps
    in the difference series then the cause has to be the circulation.
      I'm away after today for the rest of the week. I hope to have some email contact,
    but it won't be regularly.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 01:16 27/10/2008, liqx@cma.gov.cn wrote:

     Dear Phil,

     Here I attached the reviewers' comments on the paper.  Two reviewers are intended to
     reject the paper, but most of the comments are not right or justified. One (reviewer B)
     of the them may be Ren, whose comments are same as what he said to me when he read the
     manuscript.

     I want to resubmit it to another Journal, can you give some advices on that?

     Thank you.

     Best

     Qingxiang
     


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     ʼ֣J. Climate (Exeter)
     ʼ˵ַ[1]jclim@exeter.ac.uk

          Dear Dr Quingxiang

          I am now in receipt of all reviews of the manuscript entitled:

          "Detection of Surface Air Warming in Northeast China, with emphasis
          on the impacts of urbanization" by Li Qingxiang, Wei Li, Peng Si,
          Gao Xiaorong, Wenjie Dong, Phil Jones, Jiayou Huang, and Lijuan Cao, JCLI 2695.

          On the basis of these reviews and my own evaluation, I regret to
          inform you that the manuscript is rejected for publication in the
          Journal of Climate.

          Copies of the reviews are enclosed for your information.

          Yours sincerely,

          David B. Stephenson
          Editor for the Journal of Climate

          Attached: reviews
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          Professor David B. Stephenson, Editor for Journal of Climate,
          University of Exeter,
          School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics,
          Harrison Building, Room 334, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK.

          Director of Exeter Climate Systems: [2]www.secam.ex.ac.uk/xcs
          E-mail: [3]d.b.stephenson@exeter.ac.uk
          Tel: +44 (0)1392 269275 Fax: +44 (0)1392 217965
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          Linda McIlwraith
          Editorial Assistant for J. Climate (Exeter)
          jclim@exeter.ac.uk


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