date: Fri Jun 30 11:36:28 2000
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Meeting in October- Need YOU
to: Dirk Verschuren <Dirk.Verschuren@rug.ac.be>

   Dirk
   that is great news. Give me a week to respond to your points. I am in Switzerland next week
   and will meet with Dominique Raynaud and other organizers to refine details. Thanks again
   for accepting - will be in touch
       Keith
   At 11:55 AM 6/30/00 +0200, you wrote:

     Dear Keith,
     Thanks for inviting me to the October meeting in Avignon. I moved an earlier
     commitment, and can now confirm my attendance.
     Do you need suggestions for possible contributions from us ?  It's probably a
     bit early to do a worthwhile review of Time Stream 1 climate variability in
     Africa; well-dated records are still very scarce.  Significant new data from
     several sites are likely to appear in the next year or so, maybe in time for a
     review at the PEPIII conference in Aix-en-Provence next year.
     The decade-scale rainfall/drought record for equatorial East Africa has now
     been extended back to AD 200, data which may contribute to the discussion on
     abrupt events.
     Also, several of the records which appeared over the past year show
     chronological links between decade-to-century scale variability in African
     rainfall, Atlantic Ocean circulation, and the N Hemisphere temperature
     variations over the past millennium, with suggestions of solar forcing in all
     of them.  Maybe the time is right to start discussing possible mechanisms by
     which the tropics may have transferred decade-to-century scale solar forcing
     to higher latitudes: streams 1 and 3 of your session structure.
     Best wishes,
     Dirk.
     Keith Briffa wrote:
     > Dear Dirk
     > Due  to some cock up the attached message should have gone out to you last
     > month - could you consider the offer and let me know if you would be
     > willing to come. Thanks
     >                  Keith
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