date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:27:35 +0100
from: Hkan Grudd <hakan.grudd@natgeo.su.se>
subject: Re: Torne paper
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Yes, let's make sure that we are in the forefront of this issue.
I realize this is a hot matter from the reactions I've had from a few 
people. When I met with Jan Esper in Mallorca a couple of weeks ago, he 
and his team of "hungry beavers" talked much about making a tour in the 
North to update density series. Tornetrsk is already updated, so I 
think (hope) that I talked them out of it for the moment, but this is 
really central for future work: Updating and improving existing 
chronologies. Fieldwork in Jmtland and Tornetrsk is top priority for 
me and Bjrn when snow starts to melt.

Hkan


Keith Briffa wrote:

> Hakan
> this issue is going to become big business scientifically , and 
> whatever you (we ) do , we need to work on it on the future.
>
> Keith
>
> At 15:20 08/03/2006, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Keith,
>> this manuscript that I am working on is supposed to be one of four 
>> papers in my thesis:
>>
>> I. Grudd, H., Briffa, K.R., Karln, W., Bartholin, T.S., Jones, P.D. 
>> and Kromer, B. 2002. A 7400-year tree-ring chronology in northern 
>> Swedish Lapland: natural climatic variability expressed on annual to 
>> millennial timescales. The Holocene 12, 657-665.
>>
>> II. Grudd, H. Manuscript. Tornetrsk tree-ring width and density AD 
>> 500  2004: A test of climatic sensitivity and a new 1500-year 
>> reconstruction of north Fennoscandian summers. (to be) Submitted.
>>
>> III. Grudd, H., Briffa, K.R., Gunnarson, B.E. and Linderholm, H.W. 
>> 2000. Swedish tree rings provide new evidence in support of a major, 
>> widespread environmental disruption in 1628 BC. Geophysical Research 
>> Letters, 27(18), 2957-2960.
>>
>> IV. Roig, F.A., Le-Quesne, C., Boninsegna, J.A., Briffa, K.R., Lara, 
>> A., Grudd, H., Jones, P.D. and Villagran, C. 2001. Climate 
>> variability 50,000 years ago in mid-latitude Chile as reconstructed 
>> from tree rings. Nature, 410, 567-570.
>>
>> I have Paper II as a near-finished manuscript. Three papers are 
>> published and this fourth one will (should) appear in the thesis as a 
>> submitted manuscript. According to my supervisors it is important 
>> that I have one paper where I am single author. This is a bit rigid 
>> and I believe it is old-fashioned thinking, but I have no time to 
>> argue with them. The date for defending the thesis is fixed to June 9 
>> (2006!) and ten weeks before that date it has to be in a final form. 
>> So, end of March is the deadline.
>>
>> I do see the point of what you are saying about being involved and 
>> co-authoring this paper. I have no problem what so ever with that and 
>> I want to collaborate, but given the time schedule for finalizing my 
>> thesis I can not include new analyses in this manuscript. So what to 
>> do!?
>>
>> You need to read it and give me some advice. I am sure you will have 
>> a lot of comments :)
>>
>> Having it printed in the thesis is not the same as publishing it in a 
>> journal: There may be some possibilities in between if we time it right.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hkan
>>
>> (at present in Stockholm, Phone 0046 8 674 7591)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Professor Keith Briffa,
> Climatic Research Unit
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
>
> Phone: +44-1603-593909
> Fax: +44-1603-507784
>
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