Dear Jessica Oehrlein,

Thank you for the thorough work in answering to the reviewers questions.
From my perspective, there are still some open issues:

I would like to ask you to reply to the reviewer points:

Reviewer #2:
"I think the mechanisms for the differences they are seeing could be
better explained..."

Reviewer #3:
"The paper also lacks a clear explanation of the mechanisms behind the
differences in basic state and variability between CHEM and NOCHEM..."

In the conclusions you speculate about a stronger wave forcing.
But could you say more about the mechanisms behind this coupling?


Introduction:
Since you give the definition of SSWs and SPVs later, in section 2
section, it maybe easier for the reader to add a very short explanation
here or at least a hint that these are defined in section 2.


Data availability:
please give some detail how to access the data (like URL, simulation
abbreviation ...)

Supplement:
please include also a short text paragraph of what is shown in the
figures. A formal title page of the supplement will be added by ACP.
It may be helpful to also add the day=0 line also in these plots.

regards, Jens-Uwe Grooß