date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:20:14 +0100 from: Håkan Grudd subject: Torne paper to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk 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)