From	Malcolm K. Hughes	Date	Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:40:42 -0700
To	Michael E. Mann, Edward R. Cook
CC	Malcolm K. Hughes, Crowley_Hegerl, Jonathan T. Overpeck, ray bradley, Jan Esper, Scott Rutherford, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa
Subject	Re: Esper/Cook paper
Dear Ed - Didn't Keith Briffa also come up with a more marked LIA than MBH99 in his age-band work? If this turns out to be right, it should eventually be easier to find the sources of the differences between the reconstructions, just by virtue of there being not only many more tree-ring data for that period, but also more other, data, such as documentary. Cheers, Malcolm Malcolm Hughes Professor of Dendrochronology Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 520-621-6470 fax 520-621-8229