Please provide your review comments via email as a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect attachment using a separate file for each section that is reviewed. Including your last name in the filename would be helpful. Please DO NOT format your comments in an outline form, as a table, etc.

Comments should be sent by April 27 to USIPCCTARSYN@usgcrp.gov. If email submission is not possible, review comments may be submitted via mail to: IPCC TAR Synthesis Comments, Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, 400 Virginia Avenue, SW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20024. Please DO provide comments as hardcopy and on a 3.5" DS/HD disk (either Mac or IBM format) as a text file.

As your first line, please provide the date of comments and indicate which section is being reviewed or whether you are reviewing the Summary for Policymakers.

I. Full Identification including your name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax, email (this is only necessary one time at the beginning of your comments).

II. General Comments: Please provide any general comments on the report as a whole or on individual sections. Comments on the overall tone and scientific validity of the sections and comments expressing the reasons for agreement or disagreement with major points in the section are appropriate to submit as general comments.

III. Specific Comments

Please indicate page and line number to which comment refers and then begin your comment on the next line. If you are commenting on a table or figure, please provide enough information to enable its identification.

1. Comments should generally be of a scientific or technical nature only. Please submit spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other editorial suggestions only if they influence the meaning of the text as an editorial team will later be reviewing the report.
   
   
2. Please indicate any recommended changes and provide any references or other supporting information. To be most useful, comments should be specific in suggesting alternative wording or other changes to the text of a particular paragraph or section and, where appropriate, offer supporting information and peer-reviewed references supporting the proposed changes.
   
   
3. Please provide your name and affiliation on a new line after each comment to assist us in collating all comments into a master set.

Example of a general comment: This section is well written. It would benefit from more discussion of the drought of 1988. Overall I believe it is overly (optimistic/pessimistic) about the potential for responding. Tom Jones, University of Kalamazoo

Example of a specific (line-by-line) comment: Page 6, Line 4: I suggest changing the estimate of the change in precipitation from "2%" to "12%". This is based on the paper published in XXX journal (provide full reference if possible) describing the results of the XYZ model simulation. Tom Jones, University of Kalamazoo