cc: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>
date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:46:48 -0700
from: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
subject: Re: MWP paper / possible figure / data
to: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi Time and Keith - we're talking tomorrow 
hopefully, and also in touch w/ Susan and Martin. 
Will get some feedback to you on this asap. Very 
nice paper. Thanks for sending. Best, peck

>Dear Eystein and Peck,
>
>sorry for the overlong silence at this end.  We 
>*are* working on the revised figures, etc. and 
>thanks for the CLIMBER and BERN EMIC data - 
>Keith and I must look at this and see how best 
>to show it.
>
>In the meantime, I just wanted to forward to you 
>a paper that we have coming out in Science next 
>Friday - see the *uncorrected* page proofs 
>attached.  Please treat this in confidence and 
>for IPCC purposes only - I'm sure you're aware 
>of their strict embargo policy.
>
>The reason we thought it worth forwarding was 
>because it is useful for comparing implied MWP 
>and 20th century NH temperatures and thus might 
>be appropriate for use in the IPCC "MWP box". 
>The approach is similar to that which Susan 
>Solomon seemed to be keen on - looking at 
>individual series, but simply counting how many 
>simultaneously imply warmth or cold conditions. 
>There's also the possibility that one of its 
>figures (perhaps panel 3B) might be useful in 
>the "MWP box".  If you have time for a quick 
>read, please tell us what you think.
>
>Eystein - you were also wanting some regional 
>proxy series and I thought I'd send you the data 
>shown in Fig 1 of this paper, because I'm 
>preparing a file to accompany the paper anyway 
>and this will kill two birds with one stone. 
>Are these data what you were hoping for?  I'll 
>send them later today if they are.
>
>Cheers
>
>Tim
>
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh 
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>Dr Timothy J Osborn
>Climatic Research Unit
>School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
>Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
>
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