Eurasian autumn snow link to winter North Atlantic Oscillation is strongest for Arctic warming periods

Wegmann, Martin; Rohrer, Marco; Santolaria-Otín, María; Lohmann, Gerrit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-509-2020

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-509-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-509-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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29 May 2020

Research article |

| 29 May 2020

Eurasian autumn snow link to winter North Atlantic Oscillation is strongest for Arctic warming periods

Martin Wegmann, Marco Rohrer, María Santolaria-Otín, and Gerrit Lohmann

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RC1: 'Reviewer comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #1', Martin Wegmann, 29 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Please see review comments in uploaded PDF file.', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jan 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #2', Martin Wegmann, 29 Feb 2020
RC3: 'Reviewer Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #3', Martin Wegmann, 29 Feb 2020

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (02 Mar 2020) by Gabriele Messori

AR by Martin Wegmann on behalf of the Authors (02 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Mar 2020) by Gabriele Messori

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (13 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (19 Mar 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Mar 2020) by Gabriele Messori

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (03 Apr 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (06 Apr 2020) by Gabriele Messori

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Predicting the climate of the upcoming season is of big societal benefit, but finding out which component of the climate system can act as a predictor is difficult. In this study, we focus on Eurasian snow cover as such a component and show that knowing the snow cover in November is very helpful in predicting the state of winter over Europe. However, this mechanism was questioned in the past. Using snow data that go back 150 years into the past, we are now very confident in this relationship.