From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Fri, 02 May 2003 18:46:41 -0400
To	Keith Briffa
Subject	Re: belated thanks for review and questions
HI Keith, No problem, I know how hectic the past couple months have been for you, so no apologizes necessary whatsoever! Call me old fashioned, but I still tend to prefer the "blind" reviewer convention, so I'd prefer to remain anonymous unless you think that revealing my identity would be help in any particular way. I agree w/ your take on this--a journal like GRL is probably more appropriate, or even "Climatic Change" because a number of similar papers have been published there in the past (by folks like Nychka, Bloomfield, and others). I'm not sure if Steve Schneider is sick and tired of those papers though... Please don't hesitate to let me know if I can be of any additional help w/ this. Looking forward to seeing you one of these days, mike At 02:36 PM 5/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: Mike in hassling another reviewer , I realised that I did not thank you properly for the review you did of the manuscript by Gil-Alana (fractionally integrated techniques used to show increased persistence in global temperature record in 20th century). So this is by way of thanks and to ask whether you wish me to reveal your name to the reviewer (considering you make some very helpful suggestions for further analysis)? I would otherwise assume no. As it happens I can not get a response from the other reviewer - but rather than prolong the wait for the submitter , I am tempted (on the basis of my reading also) to just send your comments and reject the manuscript as it is - I suppose they could resubmit a major rework following your suggestions - but I tend to the opinion that it would be better suited to another journal anyway - GRL comes to mind. What do you think Cheers Keith -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ ______________________________________________________________ Professor Michael E. Mann Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770 FAX: (434) 982-2137 [2]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml References 1. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ 2. http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml