David Nash	: 	Darrell, I agree with you from an Africa 2k perspective. Consistency in screening and analysis would be good. Dirk Vesrschuren noted in an email	:  'The approach used in the Nat Geo paper risks giving undue weight to poor-quality or poorly understood records with big signals. There is also a tendency to favor records with absolute numbers even when uninformative or questionable, at the cost of solid records which are only known from old publications (original data lost) or records that are well-dated but discontinuous.'
 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist	: I think a key to success is good coordination of the selection criteria/data collection. It is also important to keep in mind that the selection criteria/data collection are partly related to which reconstruction method(s) are used. Data selection and the choice of reconstruction/calibration method(s) should therefore, at least in my opinion, be discussed more together.
 david  fisher	: The accumulation rate histories are available for all the Greenland cores at annual resolution
 Hans Linderholm	: Yes, that is excellent. The N Atlantic region will be one of the regions we'd like to focus on
 Mike Evans	: I wonder if there are other techniques for calibration that could be applied, besides, downcore calibrations.
 Mike Evans	: plansfor hydrolcimate data collection?
 Mike Evans	: databaseing suggestions sent to Nick McKay by Jason Addison for global T database 
 Mike Evans	: and the meetig will help us focus our phase 2 priorities
 Mike Evans	: Also we can do more coimparisons between observations and simulations (in NAm2K0
 Belen Martrat	: yes, we can re-send these suggestions again if needed to pave the way for the hydroclimate initiative
 Brian Chase	: June/July 2016 very good for well-digested African product
 David Nash	: I agree - we really need a global synthesis if we can.
 Brian Chase	: I would say so
 Brian Chase	: Clear direction mentioned at AFQUA meeting was the extent to which regional 2k datasets could be linked mechanistically with GCM last millennium simulations.
 david  fisher	: So is the problem , that the data set will be  in search of  a hypothesis?
 Brian Chase	: For Africa, more looking to identify clear mechanisms. Similarities across the continent have been identified, but a coherent link thorugh climate systems remains arm-wavy, at this stage
 Brian Chase	: Limiting to H and O for Africa, for 2k, would restrict the extent to which Africa could contribute, it should be noted
 Belen Martrat	: same for the Mediterranean region
 Ulf Buentgen	: dito for EU
 Belen Martrat	: thank you  Ulf
 David Nash	: Real issues with untangling the effects of moisture and temperature for many H and O records in Africa
 Belen Martrat	: modelling will be crucial	:  hydroclimate & data-model comparison synergies 
 david  fisher	: Given that most multi-site-multi -proxy methods  automatically  "de-select"  the lesser correlated series,  why not  put everything into the pot and let the method produce the cake?
 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist	: I agree with Belen that the model–data comparison is an important aspect but, as I see it, it mainly comes in a later phase of the project. First we need to have some kind of hydroclimatic reconstruction (spatial field or point-wise) to compare the model simulations with.
 Ulf Buentgen	: yes
 Hans Linderholm	: I'm not sure that I got aim of producing an "isotope" product within the 2k project?
 Hugues Goosse	: For model data-compariosn, the compilation is necessary but not necessarily a reconsturction or definite interpreation, in particular for isotope enable models. This even clearer for data assimilation experiments.
 Hans Linderholm	: OK, that makes sence, and would at this stage mainly be about compiling data?
 Bronwen Konecky	: What might be missing in our plans thus far is a global compilation of all the data the regional groups are going to be putting together for hydroclimate
 david  fisher	: A history of ENSO might be a focus for the hydro-reconstruction?
 Mike Evans	: Theere was also an emphasis on isotopic data from Nam2K (Julie Cole was lead on this from last Nam2K mtg).
 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist	: I think the ENSO can be a very interesting issue to address with the help of the PAGES 2k hydroclimatic product but too specific for being a goal for the PAGES 2k product itself.
 Brian Chase	: The isotope database, while perhaps limited in some regions, could act as a common thread or a basis for comparison between the regions. Combining would, I think, be very effective.
 Brian Chase	: For the purpose of this record, might want to clarify that we are talking about water isotopes
 Belen Martrat	: Ocean2k can prepare the isotope profiles from the datasets used for sea surface temperature, if/when available 
 David Nash	: Thank you for organising this - great software and very well chaired - we'd love to use this platform for Africa 2k meetings!
 Bronwen Konecky	: @Belen-- excellent! 
 david  fisher	: Bye bye,,, usful meeting well done.
 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist	: Yes, both the videolink meetings have been an excellent step forward!
 Bronwen Konecky	: Thanks all!
 Belen Martrat	: yes, well done, thank you bye
 Fidel González Rouco	: bye guys, thank you
 Ana Moreno	: thank you all!
 Mario Morellon	: Well done, thanks to organizers!
 Mercè Bermejo	: Thanks all! Bye!