date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:39:13 -0500 (EST) from: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu subject: Re: NAO poster at the INQUA conference to: drdendro@ldgo.columbia.edu, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Dear Tim, Thanks for your email. That sounds like a great idea, so I'm more than happy to sign on. I'll let Ed and you work out the details. Rosanne D'Arrigo and Heidi Cullen have been involved in our own NAO mini-intercomparison project, so Ed can discuss w/ them too. Please pass along to Keith, also, that his comment re the use of instrumental data in reconstructing the NAO is very well taken, and this is why I produced two versions of our NAO reconstruction, one "with" and one "without" (use of instrumental data in reconstruction), though Heidi hasn't gotten around to adding that to the mix and seeing what happens... By the way, Phil and I had some good discussion about comparing reconstruction methods and results, and I'm looking forward hopefully to working w/ you to do this in the months ahead. This is important and worthwhile, and if things work out, Ed and I will have funding in the states to foster methods comparisons too... cheers, mike _______________________________________________________________________ Michael E. Mann Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences Morrill Science Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu (normal) memann@titan.oit.umass.edu (attachments) Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike Phone: (413) 545-9573 FAX: (413) 545-1200