cc: , "Jesse Smith" , date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:12:00 -0000 from: "Julia Uppenbrink" subject: RE: Article for Science to: "Phil Jones" Dear Phil: Thanks for the working title and summary. This looks very interesting - just the thing we were looking for. We will send around the list of articles and brief descriptions very soon. Best wishes Julia -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 06 November 2000 15:06 To: Julia Uppenbrink Cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; Jesse Smith; t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: Article for Science Dear Julia, Today is the first day that Keith Briffa, Tim Osborn and me have all been together at CRU. We have had a brief discussion about a title and a rough outline. Our working title is : The Evolution of Climate over the last Millennium The article will assess all the evidence for change over the last 1000 years and intercompare all the multiproxy averages. This will involve both temperature series for the NH (and what can be said about the SH) , as well as paleo-reconstructions of ENSO and the NAO. Also we will bring in the use of borehole records and the long European instrumental records which extend back to the late 17th century. Discussion will be couched in terms of what is known and what we need to know and how both these relate to what many paleoclimatologists believe has happened in terms of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. We don't propose to get into comparisons with model results as these were covered by Tom Crowley's paper in July 2000. We will however get to the question of the unusualness of the 20th century in a millennial context. We'll be happy to discuss this more. We don't plan to begin for at least a couple of weeks. We all have many other things to complete over that time as a result of being away during the last few weeks. Cheers Phil