cc: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, joos <joos@climate.unibe.ch>, Bette Otto-Bleisner <ottobli@ncar.ucar.edu>, rahmstorf@ozean-klima.de, Dominique Raynaud <raynaud@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr>, cddhr@giss.nasa.gov, Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>, oyvind.paasche@bjerknes.uib.no
date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:31:14 -0700
from: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
subject: Re: IMPORTANT Revising the SOD
to: Valerie.Masson@cea.fr

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Hi all - thanks Valerie for your suggestions. I 
would like it if each section leader (David 6.3; 
Bette 6.4, followed by Dom tomorrow, and Keith, 
6.6) would look at what Valerie proposes for your 
sections and make the appropriate revisions or 
not.

I know this sounds like a broken record, but we 
have to cut a couple pages. Valerie's analysis is 
worthwhile, and I think section 6.4 really has to 
come down in size. Sorry. Bette, can you pick up 
where Valerie left off with respect to sea level. 
Eystein was going to work on that, but I think 
you should give it a shot so we don't put him 
back in the hospital (I think he's coming home 
today, shich is good).

Keith's section is much harder to cut, due to the 
very high visibility of that section, and the 
clear directives from Susan and reviewers to do 
as Keith has done regarding temp change of the 
last 1300 years. We might be able to cut some of 
the latter subsections in that section - Keith, 
please weigh in! Others too.

Note that our Exec Summary is still deemed by 
some as too long, so getting rid of some less 
important bullets and the prose that supports 
them might be a good way to go - thus our chapter 
would cover less, but still do the job really 
well with what we do cover. If Susan or reviewers 
want cut material back it, well, we'll get more 
pages. But, we have to come in close to 35 final 
pages this time around.

Please let me know if the above plan won't work, 
and thanks for this final effort towards the SOD.

thanks, Peck



thanks, Peck

>Dear all
>
>Please find comments on the draft.
>
>Today there are 13 pages for the glacial 
>interglacial time scale (most for the LGM in 
>fact), 6 for the Holocene and 15 for the past 
>2000 years (if I am correct).
>
>- I suggest to shorten slightly the ancient climate part
>
>- I suggest to shorten slighlty the LGM 
>model-data comparison part (a bit less precision 
>in the regional orders of magnitude is I think 
>acceptable)
>
>- Some of the sea level section has to be 
>shortned. I tried to do so for the first half. 
>For the end of this section page 22 there is 
>some critical material that cannot be let like 
>this (including criticism of flaws in some 
>reconstructions etc).
>The bottom of page 6-22 and top of 6-23 has some 
>overlap with the section on the last 
>interglacial period => could be combined.
>
>- Keith should have received my comments on 6.6.
>
>I hope that this will be useful. I have lined 
>what I think should be removed and also coloured 
>some writing / editing mistakes + suggestions.
>
>For rapid events of the last ice age in 
>Greenland I attach a review paper that could be 
>cited for the amplitude of DO events (synthesis 
>of all available amplitudes of temperature). 
>Papers by Huber cover a few events + 
>Severinghaus only the deglaciation.
>
>
>Valrie.
>
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:cras2005.pdf (PDF /IC) (001188A8)


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