From: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.

uk>
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
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