cc: <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Jesse Smith" <hjsmith@aaas.org>, <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:12:00 -0000
from: "Julia Uppenbrink" <Juppenbrink@science-int.co.uk>
subject: RE: Article for Science
to: "Phil Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

Dear Phil:

Thanks for the working title and summary. This looks very interesting - just
the thing we were looking for. We will send around the list of articles and
brief descriptions very soon.

Best wishes

	Julia

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk]
Sent: 06 November 2000 15:06
To: Julia Uppenbrink
Cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; Jesse Smith; t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Article for Science

   Dear Julia,

        Today is the first day that Keith Briffa, Tim  Osborn and me have
all been together at CRU. We have had a brief discussion about a title and a
rough outline.

       Our working title is :

     The Evolution of Climate over the last Millennium

   The article will assess all the evidence for change over the last 1000
years and intercompare all the multiproxy averages.  This will involve both
temperature series for the NH (and what can be said about the SH) , as well
as paleo-reconstructions of  ENSO and the NAO. Also we will bring in the use
of borehole records and the long European instrumental records which extend
back to the late 17th century. Discussion will be couched in terms of what
is known and what we  need to know and how both these relate to what many
paleoclimatologists believe has happened in terms of the Medieval Warm
Period and the Little Ice Age.

     We don't propose to get into comparisons with model results as these
were covered by Tom Crowley's paper in July 2000. We will however get to the
question of the unusualness of the 20th century in a millennial context.

     We'll be happy to discuss this more. We don't plan to begin for at
least a couple of weeks. We all have many other things to complete over that
time as a result of being away during the last few weeks.

  Cheers
  Phil



