cc: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk
date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:28:31 -0400
from: John Milliman <milliman@vims.edu>
subject: Nature ms
to: trenbert@ucar.edu, Aiguo Dai <adai@ucar.edu>

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Dear Kevin and Aiguo:
	Attached is our Nature manuscript, together with figures and 
supplementary data upon which we based the paper.
	In our attempt we used only observed discharge data - from 
135 rivers - between 1951 and 2000, taking care that the records were 
as complete as possible (median record length was 49 years; mean was 
47), thus avoiding the problems of Milly and the French.  Also, our 
database is reasonably global in extent.
	We then compared this with precipitation change to see if we 
could delineate climatic vs anthropogenic drivers, which I think we 
did reasonably well.
	So our approaches are somewhat similar, but certainly not 
identical.  And our results are not diametrically different either.
	We should hear from Nature within the next few weeks, at 
which point we should be able to discuss this better.  In the 
meantime, if you have questions or comments, fire away....
	Sincerely,
	John

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