cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, mann@psu.edu date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:25:54 -0500 from: "raymond s. bradley" subject: Re: PAGES/CLIVAR workshop to: christoph.kull@pages.unibe.ch Dear Christoph: I regret that I will not be able to make it to the PAGES/CLIVAR meeting in early June. I am already committed to fieldwork in the High Arctic at that time. May I suggest that you invite Dominik Fleitmann to the meeting. He has some very important high resolution records from speleothems and I don't see anybody on the list who represents that approach to paleoclimate reconstruction. Stalagmite records are providing very valuable new insights into past climate (including past forcing) from many areas where we hitherto had no paleoclimatic reconstructions. Dominik's email address is: fleitman@geo.umass.edu Regards Ray At 03:33 AM 11/29/2005, you wrote: Dear all, After discussing the issue of past climate variability during the past years, this topic remained a burning issue for PAGES, CLIVAR, the wide scientific community and the public. Especially the fact that the late 20th century warmth is most probably anomalous in the context of the past 1,000-2,000 years fuelled this discussion. Significant differences and uncertainties exist, however, between various estimates with regard to both empirical reconstructions and model simulations. - Therefore: PAGES/CLIVAR is pleased to announce a workshop that aims at making progress in that respective field of research! >From June 7 to June 10 2006, we would like to invite a group of approx. 25 to 30 scientists (see attached email list, including you!) for extended discussions at a nice location in the Swiss alps (Wengen or Mürren). Timing of the event will allow travel afterwards to a facultative excursion on June 11 directly to the HOLIVAR meeting in London that starts on June 12. The workshop is entitled: "Past Millennia Climate Variability: Proxy based reconstructions, Modeling and Methodology - Synthesis and Outlook" Funding is provided by PAGES and EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) and the workshop is scientifically organized by Phil Jones, Heinz Wanner, Mike Mann, Keith Briffa and the PAGES IPO in Bern. As a major outcome, the group is expected to publish a peer-reviewed summary paper. Please have a look at the attached first circular for further information and let me know by January 31th if you are able to attend this event! For information on PAGES/CLIVAR, please have a look at the attached document CLIVAR-PAGES-info.pdf. We are looking forward to meeting you - hopefully at the latest in June! In behalf of the organizing committee! Christoph Kull -- Christoph Kull Science Officer PAGES IPO Sulgeneckstrasse 38 CH-3007 Bern Switzerland phone: +4131 312 31 53/33 fax: +4131 312 31 68 Raymond S. Bradley Director, Climate System Research Center* Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Morrill Science Center 611 North Pleasant Street AMHERST, MA 01003-9297 Tel: 413-545-2120 Fax: 413-545-1200 *Climate System Research Center: 413-545-0659 <[1] http://www.paleoclimate.org> Paleoclimatology Book Web Site: [2]http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/paleo/html Publications (download .pdf files): [3]http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/bradley/bradleypub.html