date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:06 UT
from: grlonline@agu.org
subject: 2008GL034552 (Editor - Fabio Florindo): Request to Review from
to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk

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   (F2.74; B3.07; Q3.07) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:06 UT Message-Id: <42121095534686@gems>
   Dear Dr. Jones:
   Would you be willing and available to review "Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age type
   events in tropical South America inferred from an ice core ammonium record" by Thomas
   Kellerhals, Sabina Brtsch, Michael Sigl, Stefanie Knsel, Heinz Gggeler, and Margit
   Schwikowski, submitted for possible publication in the Geophysical Research Letters.
   The manuscript's abstract is:
   We present a reconstruction of tropical South American temperature anomalies over the last
   ~1600 years. The reconstruction is based on a highly resolved and carefully dated ammonium
   record from an ice core that was drilled in 1999 on Nevado Illimani in the eastern Bolivian
   Andes. It reveals that Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age type episodes are
   distinguishable in tropical South America, a region for which until now only very limited
   temperature proxy data exist. For the time period from about AD 1050 to 1300, our
   reconstruction shows relatively warm conditions that are followed by cooler conditions from
   the 15th to the 17th century, when temperatures dropped by up to 0.5 degree C below the
   1961-1990 average. The last decades of the past millennium are characterized by warm
   temperatures that seem to be unprecedented in the last ~1600 years.
   If you agree to review this manuscript, I would ask for your comments within 14 days from
   your acceptance.
   To ACCEPT, click on the link below:
   [1]http://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex?el=A7K1Dulv2A6BFkh5D1A9TLZGUWrlBGgFpcNbWG7Ro
   QZ
   If you are unable to review this manuscript at this time, I would appreciate any
   suggestions of other potential reviewers who would be qualified to examine this manuscript.
   (Via reply e-mail.)
   To DECLINE, click on the link below:
   [2]http://grl-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex?el=A6K6Dulv2A5BFkh6E3A9TLZGUWrlBGgFpcNbWG7Ro
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   If you have any questions or need more information feel free to reply to this e-mail.
   Thank you for your consideration and support of Geophysical Research Letters.
   Sincerely,
   Fabio Florindo
   Editor
   Geophysical Research Letters

