date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:27:35 +0100 from: Håkan Grudd subject: Re: Torne paper to: Keith Briffa 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. Torneträsk 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 Jämtland and Torneträsk is top priority for me and Björn when snow starts to melt. Håkan 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., Karlén, 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. Torneträsk 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, >> >> Håkan >> >> (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 > > http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/