Reconciling North Atlantic climate modes: revised monthly indices for the East Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns beyond the 20th century

Comas-Bru, Laia; Hernández, Armand

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2329-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2329-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2329-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Review article

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21 Dec 2018

Review article |

| 21 Dec 2018

Reconciling North Atlantic climate modes: revised monthly indices for the East Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns beyond the 20th century

Laia Comas-Bru and Armand Hernández

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RC1: 'Reviewer comments, Comas-Bru and Hernandez', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Nov 2018
- AC1: '“Reconciling North Atlantic climate modes: Revised monthly indices for the East Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns beyond the 20th century” by Laia Comas-Bru and Armand Hernández', Armand Hernández, 04 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Reconciling North Atlantic climate modes: Revised monthly indices for the East Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns beyond the 20th century', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Nov 2018
- AC2: '“Reconciling North Atlantic climate modes: Revised monthly indices for the East Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns beyond the 20th century” by Laia Comas-Bru and Armand Hernández', Armand Hernández, 04 Dec 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Armand Hernández on behalf of the Authors (05 Dec 2018) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Dec 2018) by David Carlson

Short summary

This review presents new EOF-based monthly indices of the east Atlantic and the Scandinavian patterns covering the period from 1851 to present. The paper also includes a comparison with their analogous instrumental indices, provides insights into the reasons why different sources of data may give slightly different time series and demonstrates that using these patterns to explain climate variability beyond the winter season needs to be done carefully due to their non-stationary behaviour.