Tropospheric eddy feedback to different stratospheric  conditions in idealised baroclinic life cycles

Rupp, Philip; Birner, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-111-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-111-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-111-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

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04 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 04 Feb 2021

Tropospheric eddy feedback to different stratospheric conditions in idealised baroclinic life cycles

Philip Rupp and Thomas Birner

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Response to referee 1', Philip Rupp, 11 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Response to referee 2', Philip Rupp, 11 Nov 2020
RC3: 'Review of WCD-2020-35', Anonymous Referee #3, 15 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Response to referee 3', Philip Rupp, 11 Nov 2020

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

AR by Philip Rupp on behalf of the Authors (06 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Dec 2020) by Daniela Domeisen

RR by Marie McGraw (05 Jan 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 Jan 2021)

For final publication, the manuscript should be

accepted as is

accepted subject to technical corrections

accepted subject to minor revisions

reconsidered after major revisions

I would be willing to review the revised paper, if the editor considers it necessary.

I am not willing to review the revised paper.

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Tropospheric eddy feedback to different stratospheric conditions in idealised baroclinic life cycles

Philip Rupp and Thomas Birner

This is my second review of this manuscript. Thank you to the authors for their efforts in addressing my questions and concernts in the previous round of reviews. With the exception of a few small questions and some typos, I am satisfied by the present manuscipt and recommend publication. Line numbers below refer to the revised manuscript, not to the 'track-changes' version of the manuscipt, which do not agree; the latter seems to be a somewhat more recent version of the text and some of the typos identified below may have already been corrected.

l83: Can you be more explicit about how they disagree? This is not clear from the summaries given here.

Section 2: The authors' response to my previous comments suggest that their model is specified with an isobaric lower boundary; this is potentially of some quantitative relevance (e.g. Haynes and Shepherd 1989). If this is so it should be stated clearly in the model description.

Haynes, P. H. and T. G. Shepherd (1989) "The importance of surface pressure changes in the response of the atmosphere to zonally-symmetric thermal and mechanical forcing". Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 115, pp. 1181-1208.

l258, 281: "a simple way to quantify the eddy feedback processes" this claim is made in several places, but is not really expanded upon, and I am not sure exactly what the authors have in mind.

l370: "stratospheric jet to substantially alter the" -> "stratospheric jet substantially altered the"

l373: This seems to be a note that was left in the text.

l448: extent

l487: life-cycle

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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Jan 2021) by Daniela Domeisen

AR by Philip Rupp on behalf of the Authors (23 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We use the simple framework of an idealised baroclinic life cycle to study the tropospheric eddy feedback to different stratospheric conditions and, hence, obtain insights into the fundamental processes of stratosphere–troposphere coupling – in particular, the processes involved in creating the robust equatorward shift in the tropospheric mid-latitude jet that has been observed following sudden stratospheric warming events.