date: Wed May 7 17:05:48 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Nature review request - manuscript 2008-04-04235 to: k.ziemelis@nature.com Karl, OK - send full ms, or details of where I can find the paper. Cheers Phil At 16:47 07/05/2008, you wrote: Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 2055 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain Dear Professor Jones A manuscript has been submitted to Nature, which we were hoping you would be interested in reviewing. The manuscript comes from Alexander Stine, Peter Huybers, and Inez Fung and is entitled "Changes in the Phase of the Annual Cycle of Surface Temperature". Its first paragraph is pasted below. Is this a paper that you would be able to review for us within 14 days? If so, please let me know as soon as possible, and I will send instructions to you on how to access the manuscript. Failing that, it would be helpful to us if you could suggest alternative referees. Nature's information for peer-reviewers is at [1]www.nature.com/nature/authors/referees/index.html. Many thanks in advance for your help; I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely Karl Ziemelis Physical Sciences Editor, Nature Nature's author and policy information sites are at [2]www.nature.com/nature/submit/. Changes in the Phase of the Annual Cycle of Surface Temperature Alexander Stine, Peter Huybers, and Inez Fung The annual cycle in surface temperature is massive, larger than even the glacial-interglacial cycles in most places on Earth. Trends in amplitude and phase of the annual harmonic in surface temperature have been observed, but models predict the opposite sign phase trend to that which is observed. Our understanding of natural variability is poor making it difficult to assess the importance of observed trends. Here we show that the phase of extratropical land shifted towards earlier seasons by 1.5 days from 1954-2006 and that this shift appears anomalous with respect to natural variability. This shift is not seen over the ocean. No significant change in the amplitude is found. Please note that your contact details are being held on our editorial database which is used only for this journal's management of the peer review process. If you would prefer us not to contact you in the future please let us know by emailing nature@nature.com. This email has been sent through the NPG Manuscript Tracking System NY-610A-NPG&MTS 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------