[Loops] proposal of a review "Critical assessment in the understanding of coronal loops"

[Markus J. Aschwanden]

Dear All,

Hugh has an interesting suggestion about writing a critical and  
objective review.
I think his unfailing identification of interested authors is an  
excellent first cut.
Of course it needs to be discussed who is taking the responsibility to  
be first
author, and who else would like to contribute (and become co-author by  
default).
The first author should be somebody who is willing to sheperd and  
streamline
such a job through all hurdles of writing and editing, carefully  
balancing different
views and arguments of pros and cons, and organizing the review in a  
logical manner.
The review by the Miller et al. Team (1997, JGR 102/A7, p.14631-14660)  
is an excellent
role model. Please check it out with ADS, it shows a total citation  
count of 168 that
steadily continues every year. As I remember, the team (Miller,  
Cargill, Emslie, Holman,
Dennis, LaRosa, Winglee, Benka, Tsuneta) had a couple of meetings to  
sort out their
conclusions, so it was very labor intense. But since we had already  
3-4 workshops,
it would be timely to tackle a similar critical assessment of the  
problem. The title
could be very similar, such as "A critical assessment in the  
understanding of
coronal loops". We should give this proposal serious consideration  
during the
meeting in Florence.

Just some food for thoughts!
Cheers,

Markus



Dear Markus

Well, this email thrash shows who is interested, I guess: Aschwanden,  
Brooks, Klimchuk, Berger, Hudson, Klimchuk, Martens, Poland, Velli,  
Warren... have I missed anybody? Maybe these people should be the  
authors of a "forced marriage" review along the lines of Miller et al.  
(1997) on particle acceleration.

Hugh

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Dr. Markus J. Aschwanden
Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory
Lockheed Martin Advanced Techology Center
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