cc: Valérie Masson-Delmotte , Denis-Didier Rousseau date: Thu May 21 12:52:46 2009 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: cp-2009-3 - Missing Author Comment to: editorial@copernicus.org Dear Natasha, I don't see how you can make the assumption you have since your last email of May 13! Today is May 21 - 8 days later! We are preparing a revised paper!!! We had almost completed it when we saw that there was another comment! Valerie told me that you had all the comments on April 21. You informed me on May 13 that the review period had closed. It was then that I saw there was a third one. I didn't see the need to respond, until we decided how to revise the manuscript. I thought it was standard practice with journals to get the comments and respond with a revised paper with all the responses at the same time. In this way a second review will be able to see how we have responded. We have not been slow in this, but we have other things to do! My colleague has been away for a couple of weeks. We are trying to prepare a large amount of Supplementary Information as that was what one of the comments asked for. I'm attaching the comments as they are at the moment. They are nearly final except for details of exactly how we reproduce the Supplementary Material. This is the bit in yellow. I have gone out of my way to write this paper, at the request of the editor. If this paper ever comes out, I don't think I will be submitting another one. It seems perverse to have respond before revising the paper, and then given only 8 days to do it! Best Regards Phil At 12:01 21/05/2009, you wrote: Dear Prof Jones, With regret we have to inform you that we had to interrupt the peer-review process of your following manuscript: Journal: CP Title: The influence of the circulation on surface temperature and precipitation patterns over Europe Author(s): PD Jones and DH Lister MS No.: cp-2009-3 Unfortunately, you have not posted any Author Comment in the interactive discussion during the Final Response Phase. This comment is required as a reply to the contributions in the discussion and has to be posted before a revised paper can be submitted. Therefore, we assume that you are not going to submit a revised paper for the final journal publication. Perhaps this is simply due to an oversight on your part. In that case, you are kindly asked to contact me. Thank you very much for your cooperation! You are invited to monitor the history of your manuscript via the MS Overview: [1]http://editor.copernicus.org/CP/my_manuscript_overview To log in, please use your Copernicus Office User ID 45253. With kind regards, Natascha Töpfer Copernicus Publications Editorial Support Office editorial@copernicus.org on behalf of the CP Editorial Board 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------