date: Fri Jan 11 16:50:50 2008 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: Potential reviewers to: santer1@llnl.gov Thanks for this Ben. On the 'phone you also mentioned Kevin Trenberth, but you don't list him below. Is that for a reason? I ask because Phil suggested him and thought he would be do it quickly. Tim At 16:43 11/01/2008, you wrote: Dear Tim, Here are some suggestions for potential reviewers of a Santer et al. IJoC submission on issues related to the consistency between modeled and observed atmospheric temperature trends. None of the suggested reviewers have been involved in the recent "focus group" that has discussed problems with the Douglass et al. IJoC paper. 1. Mike Wallace, University of Washington. U.S. National Academy member. Expert on atmospheric dynamics. Chair of National Academy of Sciences committee on "Reconciling observations of global temperature change" (2000). Email: wallace@atmos.washington.edu 2. Qiang Fu, University of Washington. Expert on atmospheric radiation, dynamics, radiosonde and satellite data. Published 2004 Nature paper and 2005 GRL paper dealing with issues related to global and tropical temperature trends. Email: qfu@atmos.washington.edu 3. Gabi Hegerl, University of Edinburgh. Expert on detection and attribution of externally-forced climate change. Co-Convening Lead Author of "Understanding and Attributing Climate Change" chapter of IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Email: Gabi.Hegerl@ed.ac.uk 4. Jim Hurrell, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Former Director of Climate and Global Dynamics division at NCAR. Expert on climate modeling, observational data. Published a number of papers on MSU-related issues. Email: jhurrell@cgd.ucar.edu 5. Myles Allen, Oxford University. Expert in Climate Dynamics, detection and attribution, application of statistical methods in climatology. Email: allen@atm.ox.ac.uk 6. Peter Stott, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Expert in climate modeling, detection and attribution. Email: peter.stott@metoffice.gov.uk With best regards, Ben ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-2486 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------