Dear authors,

I am pleased to inform you that your paper is accepted for publication in ACP after consideration of the technical corrections given below.

Best regards, Farahnaz Khosrawi

Technical corrections:
- Reff should be written with "eff" as subscript throughout the manuscript.

P4, L90: Typo in methodologies (third "o" is missing)

P10, L292: add "a" -> with a number of models.....

P10, L298: add "a" -> generate a peak loading ....

P10, L309: remove space between Pin20 and closing parentheses.

P11, L349: space between circulation and opening parentheses missing.

P11, L355: Abbreviation OPC has not been introduced.

P12, L361: add "in the" so that it reads "...are shown in the Supplementary Figures......

P12, L366: Abbreviation NH has not been introduced yet.

P13, L397: Abbreviation SH has not been introduced yet.,

P14, L431: add "to" -> leading to faster.....

P16, L512: add "to" -> relative to the.....

P16, L513: "the" twice, thus one is obsolete.

P16, L515: Check sentence. Do you mean the modelled Pinatubo forcings?

P16, L518: Add space between number and unit.

P16, L530: add "a" -> might be a much weaker..... or write plural "much weaker signals".

P17, L545: add "that the" -> predicts that the Pinatubo aerosol.......

P17, L546: as in? I would suggest to write either as found in or as seen in.

P17, L561: stratospheric -> stratosphere

P17, L561: reanalyses or re-analyses, it should be written one way consistently throughout the manuscript.

P17, L562: Figure 8 is referenced before Figure 7. It seems that the reference to Figure 7 is missing at all.

P18, L576: add "the" -> via the middle branch.....

P18, L576: at around -> better to write to around or up to around.

P18, L585: better to write "at extinction of"?

P18, L589: removal of what? Please add.

P19, L624: add "the" -> suggest that the tropical ......

P19, L634: use plural -> different responses between two CMIP assessments.

P19, L635: Sato data -> The Sato data

P20, L636: add "a" -> within a couple of months

P20, L636:Thenafter -> Thereafter

P20, L642: add "the" -> to the CMIP6 datasets

P20, L642: add "a" -> predict a secondary

P20, L651: add "that" -> It is notable that those....

P21, L673: Add "the" -> Although the lidar

P21, L673: add "the" -> ...the Agung aersol

P21,L676: Rewrite sentence. Either "modelled tropics to NH midlatitude transport" or " weak transport from tropics to NH midlatitudes in the model"

P21, L677: add "the" and "S" in capital letter -> the Supplementary Figure

P21, L678: add "the" -> the Lexington lidar

P21, L684: add "an" -> estimated an about 1.5.K

P21, L685: add "the" -> due to the westerly QBO

P21, L699: 1991-3? Do you mean 1991-1993?

P22, L704: add "a" -> it is a common feature

P22, L709: rage -> range

P22, L728: Sato data -> The Sato data

P22, L733: suggests that -> suggest a

Figure 7, 10, 13: Colour bar label cut and in Figure 13 also the x-axes labels are cut.

Supplement, P2, L24: space between numbers and units missing.

Supplement, P3, Fig S1 caption: One monthly mean obsolete? Shouldn't it read "Monthly mean tropical stratospheric zonal mean wind?

Supplement, P3, Fig S1 caption: in Pin 10.... -> of the Pin 10....

Supplement, P4, Fig S2 caption: in -> of the