cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>
date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:53:18 -0700
from: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
subject: Re: helping with IPCC expert review comment responses
to: Henry Pollack <hpollack@umich.edu>

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Hi Henry (and Keith/Tim too!): Thanks again for your willingness to 
help with our chap 6 responses to expert review comments. This is a 
big help, and we're sorry it is last minute.

Regarding your recent message to me:

The IPCC draft turnaround schedule is tight, but we want to make the 
SOD as good as it can be. I apologize for not sending you a copy of 
the FOD earlier, but your are correct that we should get your input 
into the mix as we revise for the SOD. This was difficult for the FOD 
because Keith's father died right before the deadline, and it wasn't 
possible to circulate the "last 2000 years" text wider than just 
Eystein and me at the last minute. We were lucky just to meet the 
deadline - the final assembly of a chapter draft is time consuming, 
to say the least. It doesn't help that MS Word really isn't up to the 
task.

BUT, this time around, we are trying to leave more time, and if you 
are ready to work very fast, we should be able to get you into the 
mix of finalizing the "last 2000 years" section.

We set a chapter deadline for this week for all revised text and 
figs. Keith and Tim have the biggest job - several new, and time 
intensive figures, and perhaps the most difficult section prose-wise. 
We are hoping they will send all the figs this week, and the prose 
shortly thereafter.

****In order to allow Henry to read and suggest edits to the "last 
2000 years" section, we are herein asking Keith and Tim to first 
finalize on those subsections that are most important for Henry to 
read - that is, all of the observed record subsections. Keith and Tim 
can do the forcing and simulations sections second. Thus, we should 
be able to give Henry the chance to at least read and comment on 
those subsections that are most relevant. If time allows for reading 
and commenting on the entire section, then that'd be great. But, we 
are running out of time.****

Henry - we would like you to also remind us to send the SOD to all 
CAs to read after it is complete.  Like yourself, all of the CA's 
have helped with the revision of their relevant sections, but it 
would be good for all CAs to be able to read the entire document. I 
suspect we can set up an efficient way to track comments as well.

Hope this works - it all hinges on Tim/Keith finalizing fast, and 
then you responding fast. We have to have time for CLAs to edit (and 
shorten) the entire draft, and then we have to get it into final IPCC 
TSU form for submission - just the latter step takes several days.

Thanks again, Peck and Eystein


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