From: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
To: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: MWP figure
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:57:36 -0600
Cc: Eystein Jansen <eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, <oyvind.paasche@bjerknes.uib.no>

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Hi Tim and Keith - Hope you're not going to kill 
me, but I was talking with Susan Solomon today, 
and she impressed me with the need to make 
several points if we can.

One issue (other to come in a subsequent email) 
is whether we can extend the MWP box figure to 
include the 15th century. I don't read the blogs 
that regularly, but I guess the skeptics are 
making hay of their being a global warm event 
around 1450AD. I agree w/ Susan that it is our 
obligation to weigh in on issues like this, 
so.... can we extend the fig to extend up to 
1500AD?

Sorry about this, Tim. Of course we need it yesterday.

Thanks x10**6

best, peck

>Dear Eystein, Peck and Keith,
>
>I spotted a minor error in the MWP figure 
>(reference period was 1001-2000 but should have 
>been 1001-1980 because some series stop in 1980) 
>and a typo in the legend, so here is a revised 
>MWP figure with these things corrected and a 
>slight adjustment to line thicknesses and font 
>sizes.
>
>As before I've included .ps, .pdf and .gif 
>versions because I'm not sure what you prefer.
>
>I've also drafted a caption - see attached .doc 
>file.  Feel free to modify as necessary.  I 
>think it covers the necessary details including 
>normalisation period, but perhaps it is a bit 
>"wordy" and unnecessarily repeats things already 
>in the MWB box text?
>
>I'm still working on SH figure/caption.
>
>Cheers
>
>Tim
>
>
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:ipccar4_mwpbox 1.pdf (PDF /«IC») (0008D1B9)
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>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Caption for 
>MWP box figure.doc (WDBN/«IC») (0008D1BB)
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:ipccar4_mwpbox.gif (GIFf/«IC») (0008D1BC)
>Dr Timothy J Osborn
>Climatic Research Unit
>School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
>Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
>
>e-mail:   t.osborn@uea.ac.uk
>phone:    +44 1603 592089
>fax:      +44 1603 507784
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