Articles | Volume 23, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9217-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation modulates the relationship between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and fire weather in Australia
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RC1: 'Comment on acp-2022-858', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Apr 2023
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RC2: 'Comment on acp-2022-858', Anonymous Referee #5, 07 Apr 2023
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RC3: 'Comment on acp-2022-858', Anonymous Referee #4, 11 Apr 2023
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AR by Jing Li on behalf of the Authors (12 May 2023)
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 May 2023) by Yun Qian
RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (12 Jun 2023)
ED: Publish as is (14 Jul 2023) by Yun Qian

AR by Jing Li on behalf of the Authors (14 Jul 2023)
This study states that the ENSO-Australian fire relationship can be modulated by the phase changes of AMO. Specially, Atlantic warming may induce warmer temperature and less precipitation, which serves to enhance wildfires when combined with positive ENSO phase. This result is useful in understanding the recent shift in the ENSO-Australian fire relationship and in future wildfire projection in Australia. However, to further improve this manuscript, there are a few issues and questions that need to be addressed:
1. The authors mainly looked at the AMO effect on positive ENSO-Australian fire relationship, i.e., the modulation of Australian fire weather during El Nino conditions. Could they also examine La Nina conditions? Will responses of Australian fire weather also be strengthened during La Nina?
2. While it is plausible that AMO modulates the ENSO-Australian fire relationship, another major decadal climate variability, PDO, also shifted its phase around 2000. PDO may exert an even stronger impact on Australian weather. How could the authors exclude the effect of PDO?
3. The authors only used fire weather to represent fire activities. This may not be exactly equal to the actual fire counts or emissions. It is suggested to validate the correlation between ENSO and Australian fires using other proxies such as burned area, fire counts, etc.
4. Figure S8 did not give any statistical significance test of SST anomaly, which should be presented for clarity.