date: Mon Feb 28 09:32:25 2005
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: review request
to: "Dr. Gufran Beig" <beig@tropmet.res.in>

    Dear Gufran,
        The two papers you sent me are really poor papers. It is impossible to
    really review them properly as they are so bad. The first paper doesn't
    say anything new. It is too vague and selective in relating the lake/river
    anomalies with solar activity and there is no real physical explanation
    of the findings that are inferred.
       I would suggest they refer to Verschuren D Laird,
   KR and Cumming, BF (2000) Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa
   during the last 1,100 years. Nature 403, 410-413.
   This treats the lake level variability / solar activity in some detail.
      I hope this is of some use.
    Regards
    Phil
   At 11:34 18/02/2005, Dr. Gufran Beig wrote:

     Dear Dr.  Jones;
     I am contacting you as a main Guest editor of the European Journal "PHYSICS AND
     CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH". We organize every 2 years the workshop on "long term changes
     and trends in the atmosphere". This year it was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria. Papers out of
     this workshop will be published in the above mentioned journal. I am requesting you  to
     kindly help us in a review process by reviewing the attached 2 papers which I feel fall
     in the preview of your area of expertise. Hope you would agree that this is a service we
     all should render for the cause of science. Please send your critical comments by e-mail
     as soon as you can. I will be highly obliged.
     I also request you to kindly send me a reprint or a soft copy of your paper entitled
     "Climate over past millennia published in Rev. Geophys vol 42, June 2004 issue p. RG2002
     by P.D. Jones and M.E.Mann
     Please acknowledge the receipt of the paper for review.
     --
     With best regards.
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     Dr. Gufran BEIG
     Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,
     Dr. Homi Bhabha Road,Pashan
     PUNE-411 008  INDIA.
     Phone: +91-20-25893600;  Fax:  +91-20-25893825
     E-mail:  beig@tropmet.res.in
     Web: [1]http://envis.tropmet.res.in
         [2]http://www.tropmet.res.in

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