From: Tim Osborn To: santer1@llnl.gov Subject: Re: Potential reviewers Date: Fri Jan 11 17:22:46 2008 I didn't know about the link between John and Kevin. Sounds like Qiang or Myles, plus Francis, would be best combination of expertise and speediness. By the way, for online submission you'll just need to convert the Latex to a PDF file and submit that. Have a good weekend, Tim At 17:07 11/01/2008, you wrote: Dear Phil and Tim, I did leave Kevin's name off because of concerns that he might be extremely upset by Christy's involvement in Douglass et al. I guess you know that John was a Ph.D. student of Kevin's. It must be tough to have a student who's the antithesis of everything you stand for and care about - careful, thorough science. Qiang Fu would be great, since he's so knowledgable about MSU-related issues. I think he would be fast, too. Myles reviewed one of the GRL versions of Douglass et al., so he's very familiar with this territory. With best regards, Ben Phil Jones wrote: Ben, I briefly discussed this with Tim a few minutes ago. With IDAG coming up, it is probably best not on to use Gabi and Myles. I also suggested that Mike Wallace might be slow - as Myles would have been. Peter S might not be right for the IDAG reason and he does work for the HC - where Peter T does. If Jim is back working he would be good. So would Fu. If Tim can just persuade them to do it - and quickly. I did suggest Kevin - he would do it quickly - but it may be a read rag to a bull with John Christy on the other paper. Glad to see you've gone down his route! Have a good weekend! Ruth says hello! Cheers Phil At 16:43 11/01/2008, Ben Santer 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------