cc: yiou@asterix.saclay.cea.fr, yiou@atmos.ucla.edu date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:40:42 +0200 from: Thomas Stocker subject: Invitation to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk Dear Keith You may remember that Pascal Yiou, Michael Ghil and I are organising a NATO ASI in Les Houches. The date has now been confirmed and funding is well under way. The dates are Jan, 5-17th, 1998 and the title of the Study Institute is "Mathematical and Physical Tools for Climate Dynamics". When Pascal asked you lst time you had a conflict of date. I would like to ask you again, whether you'd be interested to participate. I should say that it will be quite a unique setting in which you and your tree ring research would fit in perfectly. For some uptodate information regarding the ASI please consult http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~yiou/houches98 You will see on these pages that Christian Pfister is a speaker for tree rings. This is a mix-up at the time the html was composed; please ignore it. If he comes, he will speak about historical archives, of course. Travel expenses, accommodation would be covered and your participation would consist of 1 to 2 90 minute lectures. The only "snag" is that lecturers are expected to prepare lecture notes which are then published in the famous NATO volumes. Let me say, once again, that your contribution to our NATO ASI would be indeed very valuable and nicely show the link between the mathematical models and the high-resolution proxy data. It would also be an excellent opportunity to familiarize the climate dynamicists with real data and the sophisticated statistical methods that are used to distill the dynamics from them. I am looking forward to your reply. Best Regards, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Stocker Climate and Environmental Physics Physics Institute stocker@climate.unibe.ch University of Bern Sidlerstrasse 5 phone: +41 31 631 44 64 3012 Bern, Switzerland fax: +41 31 631 44 05 ------------------------------------------------------------------