cc: Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk
date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:47:50 -0700
from: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
subject: IPCC
to: r.ramesh@prl.ernet.in, kartaveeryarjuna@yahoo.co.in

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Hi Ramesh - we'll be sending out a all-LA email tomorrow, but I 
wanted to follow up with you personally to hopefully get your help in 
making three things happen FAST.

First, we need a polished "extremes" section 6.5.5 - would you pls 
lead your group to upgrade what's already circulated. Please let me 
know what I can do to help on this one.

Second, please see if you can help Dan jump start the Regional 
responses section 6.5.9 - it's a somewhat daunting task, since we 
can't cover everything - have to provide key examples, of which the 
monsoon region of Asia has to be one - don't you agree?

Lastly, can you pls provide some help to Keith Briffa on 6.3.2.1 
(last 2000 years) - in particular, how have the Asian monsoon changed 
over this period? Is there enough to say? I'm attaching two papers 
that address this issue, and note that G. Pant (and others? - it was 
just a talk, not a pub - would be nice to have a pub) has shown that 
the two major deserts in India are also getting wetter. Thus, the 
Indian monsoon might be getting stronger in the Arabian Sea, the far 
northern areas and the driest areas. You probably know more?

Let me and Eystein know what we can do to help, but we need polished 
prose SOON.

Thanks, Peck
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