date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:20:14 +0100
from: Hkan Grudd <hakan.grudd@natgeo.su.se>
subject: Torne paper
to:  k.briffa@uea.ac.uk

   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)
