date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:59:37 +0100 from: "Newton, Alicia" subject: RE: Nature Geoscience Review Request - manuscript to: "Phil Jones" Hi Phil- Thanks for agreeing to help us with this manuscript. I will send you a link to the manuscript and instructions for referees in an e-mail to follow shortly. I would be grateful if you could consider the following questions in your review. Do you feel that this represents an advance in our understanding of the tropical response to volcanic forcing? Tropical climate over the past 4 centuries more generally? Does the record generated fully support the conclusions? Thanks again for your help. I look forward to reading you comments! Alicia ___________________________________________________________________________________________ From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 23 May 2008 13:50 To: Newton, Alicia Subject: Re: Nature Geoscience Review Request - manuscript NGS-2008-05-00486 Alicia, OK. Send the manuscript or details of how to access it. Cheers Phil At 13:26 23/05/2008, you wrote: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_----------=_12115455812840711" X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.021 (F2.74; T1.23; A2.02; B3.07; Q3.07) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:21 -0400 Message-Id: <92121154558176@rhwww3.nature.com.nature.com> Dear Professor Jones As you may have heard, we have recently launched Nature Geoscience, a monthly research journal (please see our website [1]http://www.nature.com/ngeo for more information). A short manuscript has been submitted to Nature Geoscience, which we were hoping you would be interested in reviewing. The manuscript comes from Rosanne D'Arrigo, Rob Wilson, and Alexander Tudhope and is entitled "Impact of volcanic forcing on tropical temperatures during the last four centuries". Its first paragraph is pasted below. Would you be able to assess the novelty and importance of this manuscript for us, within about 14 days of receiving the paper? If you are unable to help us with this, can you suggest any alternative referees who would have an appropriate expertise? I would also be grateful for any thoughts that you might have regarding other referees who would be appropriate to complement your expertise on this work. Thank you in advance for your help and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Yours sincerely Alicia Newton Associate Editor Nature Geoscience Nature Publishing Group The Macmillan Building 4 Crinan Street London N1 9XW UK +44 20 7833 4000 Impact of volcanic forcing on tropical temperatures during the last four centuries Rosanne D'Arrigo, Rob Wilson, and Alexander Tudhope Knowledge of volcanism's impact on tropical climate is limited prior to the instrumental period, yet important for understanding climate variability. Here we combine 19 coral, tree-ring and ice core proxies into an annual composite record that provides a comprehensive view of volcanism's impact on tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during recent centuries. We find an association between tropical volcanism and cold reconstructed tropical temperatures, although the cooling is spatially variable across the tropics. Only minimal cooling is observed following extratropical eruptions. Severe conditions following the (likely tropical) unknown1 and Tambora, Indonesia eruptions of the early 1800s suggest that this was the coldest sustained period of the Little Ice Age in the tropics. By contrast, the tropical impact of the 1600 Huaynaputina, Peru event2 appears much weaker than at higher latitudes, but the number of tropical proxies at this time is low. Our results have implications for how the tropical ocean-atmosphere system responds to natural and anthropogenic radiative forcing. Please note that your contact details are being held on our editorial database which is used only for this journal's management of the peer review process. If you would prefer us not to contact you in the future please let us know by emailing geoscience@nature.com. This email has been sent through the NPG Manuscript Tracking System NY-610A-NPG&MTS Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. 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