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date: Mon Jul  5 14:02:27 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: IDAG and Boreholes
to: hegerl@duke.edu

      Gabi and Francis,

           On the boreholes, it is important to add these two references in on p7 by rewording
   the
    sentence beginning 'Recently, Mann et al (2003) ..' . Maybe Tom can do this. My problem is
   that
    I'm still trying to settle into our new house. I will be away some mornings this week and
   am trying
    to catch up with a lot of other emails that have come. Today is my first day in for about
   2 weeks
    Also you've only sent a pdf version of the submitted paper, and I can't alter that.
        In the following section on paleo forcing and modelling studies, I would suggest that
    Tom replaces LIA references with dates.
        As for the specific comments on p 24-25 remove the second one which is repetitive.
    As for the first maybe remove 'controversy' and rephrase the sentence to be a little less
    definitive.
        One final thing, on p6 add in a reference ...  (see reviews by Jones et al., 2001
    and Jones and Mann, 2004).

   Jones, P.D. and Mann, M.E., 2004: Climate over past millennia. Reviews of Geophysics, 42,
   doi:10.1029/2003RG000143.
       I will be around if you can send me a revised draft in a few days and I can check what
    you've done.
      On some of the other issues, I like Fig 6. It is better than the scaling factors for lay
    readers. The oceans bit requires a bit of rework to add in some new references. Both
    reviewers want additional references in many places - it would seem another page or two.
    This will be good training for you Gabi with IPCC coming along !
       I would hope that if we do this correctly and respond to each point adequately then
    the reviewers (neither of whom seem to want to go through it again) will not get the
    paper again and Dave Randall can do his editing job.
    Cheers
    Phil

     Dear Colleagues,
     Attached are two papers, recently published  in the Journal of
     Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, to which I call your attention:
     Pollack, H.N. and Smerdon, J.E., Borehole climate reconstructions: Spatial
     structure and hemispheric averages, J. Geophys. Res. 109, D11106,
     doi:10.1029/2003JD004163, 2004
     Rutherford, S. and Mann, M.E., Correction to "Optimal surface temperature
     reconstructions using terrestrial borehole data", J. Geophys. Res. 109,
     D11107,doi:10.1029/2003JD004290, 2004
     The first paper presents a detailed study of the aggregation of individual
     borehole reconstructions to form a hemispheric average; the investigation also
     demonstrates that when the borehole reconstructions are properly aggregated,
     they display significant spatial correlation with the surface air temperature
     (SAT) at sub-hemispheric spatial scales. In this paper we also identify an error
     in the paper "Optimal surface temperature reconstructions using terrestrial
     borehole data" by Mann et al. [JGR 108(D7),4203, doi:10.1029/2002JD002532], and
     discuss the ramifications. Rutherford and Mann acknowledge the error in the
     second paper attached.
     I call these papers to your attention to help quell the propagation of the
     identified error, and to reiterate that in terms of an average northern
     hemisphere history over the past five centuries, the borehole reconstructions
     yield a warming of the ground surface of about 1K, half of which occurred in the
     20th century.
     Cheers,
     Henry
       ___    ___    Henry N. Pollack
      [   \  /   ]   Professor of Geophysics
       |   \/   |    Department of Geological Sciences
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