From	Phil Jones	Date	Thu Jun 5 13:18:47 2008
To	Christoph Kull, Bo Vinther, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Eric W Wolff, jan.esper@wsl.ch, Janice Lough, Juerg Luterbacher, Keith Briffa, Tim Osborn, Ricardo Villalba, Kim Cobb, Heinz Wanner, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Michael Schulz, Eystein Jansen, Nick Graham, francis, Caspar Ammann, Michael E. Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Sandy Tudhope, Tas van Ommen, Eugene R, Brendan Buckley, Hugues Goosse
CC	larry.williams@targetedgrowth.com, Thorsten Kiefer, Naresh Kumar
Subject	Review Comments on the Wengen paper
Dear All (especially Peck!), Attached are three sets of reviews of the paper - 2 in the pdf file and one in the small doc file. As you'll be able to see, there isn't that much to do and the reviews have been good. All three reviewers seem to be in awe of the group! I've had a brief discussion with Keith as to who should do what. You're all welcome to help but I only think most of you will need go through the revised version when we get that out - hopefully asap. John Matthews is still hopeful of a 2008 publication date, and you'll see we won't be going out for any further reviews - just John checking. Many of the comments relate to the tree-ring section and Keith will deal with these. They involve some re-organization and some additional refs on dendro isotope work. The coral and isotope sections get praised for organization - so well done! I'll need some help with the one coral comment on 'vital effects', so can Janice, Kim and Sandy work on that. I think it only needs a few sentences and maybe extra refs. I know some of you are in Trieste next week, so maybe you can work on it there. I'll work on the documentary section a bit and liaise with Juerg. This shouldn't involve much extra work. I'll also look at the borehole section together with what was in Ch 6 of AR4. The major bit of new text we need is on the high-res varves and laminated lake records, so this is why I highlighted Peck. They aren't used in large-area high-freq climate reconstructions, so emphasis there and to a few key review papers. Is this doable in the next couple of weeks, Peck? I don't think more than a page or two is required. Related to the issue of the different proxies use or potential use in high-freq reconstructions, I'll work on trying to bring that out in the Introduction. I'll bring out the issues of the maturity of the different proxy disciplines. Sections 3 and 4 just seem to need some minor wording changes and some clarification - possibly in a revised introduction. We're hoping that Tim here will be able to do that. Note that although the reviewer suggested dropping the forcing section, John Matthews would like that kept. In conclusion, we are nearly there. CRU will be able to find the colour costs envisaged. To those in Trieste - enjoy the week and I hope it will as fruitful as Wengen was. If anyone is going to be out of contact during the second half of June and early July can you let me know. I've reattached the submission as a word file. Cheers Phil 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------