cc: ricardo@lab.cricyt.edu.ar, drdendro@ldgo.columbia.edu, Eystein Jansen , dolago@uonbi.ac.ke, jcole@geo.arizona.edu, r.ramesh@prl.ernet.in, tswetnam@ltrr.arizona.edu date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:01:56 -0600 from: Jonathan Overpeck subject: Re: the regional section and MWP Figure to: Keith Briffa Thanks Keith, and Ed, and to all the others on this email for being willing (I hope) to help create some excellent short sections for the Chapter 6 FOD. Ricardo - hope you're down there and able to get the SH section. Just to make sure you're not confused, what we're looking for is 1) a figure w/ available long T recons, plus borehole, either as single SH curve, or regional (e.g., Austrialia and southern Africa) and 2) some short prose (paragraph or two) giving an overview - i.e., that a SH composite recon is not possible, but that we do have some good long recons and they show... (plus borehole). Focus is on temperature. Ricardo - do you have this under control, and can we expect something in the next couple days? Pretty, please? Por favor? Ricardo and Ed - I guess you guys and I need to think about a short section on variability (e.g., ENSO to add to Keith's NAO - will have to at least say something about PDO and AMO too, even if it is that we don't have good recons). Julie is ready to help on the ENSO part - we have the prose - it just needs to be tightened up. I think we (me, Julie, R and E) should try to work in any of the regional forcing that is policy-relevant. The rest will have to be deleted. Then there is a short section on hydrological change over the last millennium. We don't have room to do everything, so I suggest we go with those regions with GOOD records and a clear story. If needed, we can mention other regions very briefly. I think the regions for which some prose (probably no figure, although maybe we could squeeze in N. America a la Cook et al's recent Science stuff): - North America (Ed, Julie and I write) - North Africa (East and West - I can write and hopefully get some input from Dan Olago. Note that this is partly a monsoon story. Couple good papers JUST out on East Africa. - Monsoon Asia - trickier, but Ramesh and I can try something if he's game Any others? Bottom line - I'd like to hear ASAP from each of you indicating you are around, and willing to do this work FAST (this week if possible) Ed? Ricardo? Julie (Ok, I know where to find her!) Ramesh? Dan? Keith - I'm assuming you are just aching for us to send you stuff, and that you'll be working hard - as you indicate - on the other stuff, particularly the MWP fig. Want to talk again about that? Remember that the idea was a Tom C esque fig, but only for the MWP. I think you were exploring the incorporation of other data sets too, but perhaps not. Again - many thanks, Peck -- Jonathan T. Overpeck Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth Professor, Department of Geosciences Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mail and Fedex Address: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth 715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 fax: +1 520 792-8795 http://www.geo.arizona.edu/ http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/