date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:11:02 -0600 from: Kevin Trenberth subject: [Fwd: RE: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125] to: Phil Jones Phil I see you area co-author on this paper submitted to Nature which I am not reviewing as you can see. Thought you should know or our work though: attached. Kevin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:50:26 +0100 From: Mossinger, Juliane [1] To: Kevin Trenberth [2] Dear Kevin Thank you for your offer to review the paper by John Milliman and colleagues for Nature. Given that you have a paper on the same topic under review, however, we feel that it may be best to ask another referee to assess the paper. Thanks very much for letting me know about the submission of your work to the Journal of Climate. Best regards Juliane ****************************** Dr Juliane C. Mossinger Senior Editor - The Macmillan Building, 4-6 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK Tel +44 (0)207 833 4000; Fax +44 (0)207 843 4596; [3]nature@nature.com ****************************** -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Trenberth [[4]mailto:trenbert@ucar.edu] Sent: 16 July 2007 15:10 To: Mossinger, Juliane Subject: Re: Nature review request - manuscript 2007-07-07125 Hi Juliane I feel a bit conflicted as we have a paper on the same topic already submitted to Journal of Climate: Dai, A., T. Qian and K. E. Trenberth, 2007: Changes in continental discharge from 1949-2004. J. Climate. Submitted. I may be able to review it if you get it to me today, monday, as I would have to do it today. I leave for New Zealand on Thursday until 10 August and will not be available. My colleague Aiguo Dai would also be appropriate as a reviewer but he is in China until 21 July. Kevin Trenberth [5]j.mossinger@nature.com wrote: > Dear Dr Trenberth > > A manuscript has been submitted to Nature, which we were hoping you would be interested in reviewing. The manuscript comes from John Milliman, Katherine Farnsworth, Laurence Smith, Phil Jones, and kehui xu and is entitled "Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors Affecting River Discharge To The Global Ocean, 1951-2000". Its first paragraph is pasted below. > > Is this a paper that you would be able to review for us within about two weeks? If so, please let me know as soon as possible, and I will send instructions to you on how to access the manuscript. Failing that, it would be helpful to us if you could suggest alternative referees. > > Nature's information for peer-reviewers is at [6]www.nature.com/nature/authors/referees/index.html. > > Many thanks in advance for your help; I look forward to hearing from you. > > Best regards > > Juliane Mossinger > > ****************************** > Dr Juliane C. 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Runoff trends in many rivers were dictated primarily by precipitation change; other than the Parana, Mississippi, Niger and Congo, few of these rivers experienced significant change in either parameter. Collective runoff from many mid-latitude rivers, in contrast, decreased by ~60%, in large part due to damming and irrigation. A number of high-latitude and high-altitude rivers experienced increased runoff despite generally declining precipitation. Poorly constrained precipitation data do not seem to explain fully these "excess" rivers; changed seasonality in runoff, decreased storage and/or decreased evapotranspiration also may play important roles. > > Please note that your contact details are being held on our editorial database which is used only for this journal's management of the peer review process. If you would prefer us not to contact you in the future please let us know by emailing [10]nature@nature.com. > > This email has been sent through the NPG Manuscript Tracking System NY-610A-NPG&MTS -- **************** Kevin E. Trenberth e-mail: [11]trenbert@ucar.edu Climate Analysis Section, [12]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/trenbert.html NCAR P. O. Box 3000, (303) 497 1318 Boulder, CO 80307 (303) 497 1333 (fax) Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\dai-discharge-jc-paper-1subm.pdf"