From	Keith Briffa	Date	Tue Jun 10 15:23:53 2003
To	Michael E. Mann
Subject	Re: possible rewording of section of letter?
thanks and all now ok Keith At 10:30 AM 6/10/03 -0400, you wrote: Hi Keith, no problem...Responses below. let me know what you think... thanks, mike At 03:01 PM 6/10/2003 +0100, Keith Briffa wrote: thanks for that Mike - sorry but just a few more questions the reference to "agree remarkably well with the proxy-based reconstructions (Figure 1) " [later part of paragraph ] . Unfortunately , the Bauer et al curve clearly does not - at least from AD 1100 to 1400! Again some qualifyer is needed - perhaps "for the most part , agree well " ? Yes, "remarkably" is an overstatement given that, as you say, Bauer et al does stray some bit. How about simply: "Agree with the proxy-based reconstructions within estimated uncertainties (Figure 1)". and later [middle of the 6th paragraph], "relative hemispheric warmth during the 10th to 12th centuries" is ambiguous and we prefer "relative hemispheric warmth during much of the the 10th,11th and 12th centuries" yep, better... but also , where we say [just below] "the specific periods of cold and warm apparent for Europe differ significantly from those for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole." , to what evidence of European anomalies are we referring? ahh--I left that open-ended, for Phil and you guys to deal with as you see best. I was anticipating that Figure 2 would include an appropriate proxy series or two for Europe (CET, Fennoscandia?) that would make this point. But why don't you guys revise the wording, as necessary, based on Figure 2? ______________________________________________________________ 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 [1]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa[3]/ References 1. http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml 2. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ 3. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/