cc: adk@ldeo.columbia.edu date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:33:49 -0400 from: Gordon Jacoby subject: Re: Mongolia to: Keith Briffa Keith: If we make the bulk of it on the solar issue, we still have ot describe exactly where the time series came from that are in the spectral analyses and how they were developed. Also, we have made a streamflow reconstruction (using two chronologies) that shows similar periodicities, adding to that portion of the text. It makes the case weaker if the reader does not have definitive information about the source of the series. We can add a figure that (to me) clearly shows the phase relationships between the 18.6 and 22 periodicities. If the case is to be understood, a serious reader is going to have to have Ed's paper to look at also. We are now up to about 3,000 words and an additional figure. It seems to me that this is too much for a short "fast track" paper. I think these findings could be important stimulus for more studies but the presentation has to be credible. I am a little up in the air about the next move. Cheers, Gordon Gordon C. Jacoby Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9 W Palisades, New York 10964 914 365 8616 914 365 8152 fax email: druid@ldeo.columbia.edu