date: Wed Dec 10 12:44:47 2003 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: abstract for Clivar. Due soon! to: "Michael E. Mann" Mike I have edited and reformatted the abstract quite a bit , so you had better check it thoroughly again. Please note that have no real objection to Phil being a co author - other than a possible lack of balance with two CRU people. This would be helped considerably if we considered one more author ( Ray Bradley) perhaps. What do you think? Anyway, I am happy with the abstract now. We could include a whole group of "collaborating authors " (as in IPCC reports) to acknowledge the input "the usual subjects" will undoubtedly make. Cheers Keith At 12:36 PM 12/9/03 -0500, you wrote: Hi Keith, I hope all is well. Deadline for submitting our CLIVAR abstract vastly approaches, so I've taken the liberty of drafting an abstract, which I've attached in word format. Truth be told, I've borrowed liberally from some other recent abstracts, including ones that Phil and I wrote jointly--I vote we make Phil a co-author on the abstract for this reason, among others--is that ok w/ you? Please let me know if you have any comments, and feel free to edit and send me a revised version. Its presently exactly at the 400 word limit, so we can't lengthen, but we can remove. I need to submit this electronically by Friday, because I'll be travelling and away from my email through after the deadline after then. If I don't hear from you by Friday, I'll submit as is, w/ our three names on it... thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide, mike ______________________________________________________________ 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]/