Dear Dr Smerdon,

Thank you for your responses to the two referee comments and the short comment. I appreciate your proposals to address these comments and accordingly, I invite you to submit a revised manuscript.

Regarding your request for clarification on the short comment:

“We are unclear on this specific directive because we have cited the public data sources for the tree-ring data in Figure 2 (ITRDB and NCEI) and the model data in Figures 5, 6 and 8 (ESGF and NCAR). If the reviewer is suggesting that we include the various data plotted in the figures (e.g. the beta values in Figure 2 or the correlations in Figure 5), we will make those additional data files available. “

It is the latter. Please archive the results/output of your analyses through a persistent, public repository (i.e. with a doi).

“Regarding the JJA PDSI data in Figure 8a, we will provide all of the mean PDSI time series for the American Southwest that are represented in the figure on a supplementary website constructed for the paper. Pending clarification from the editor, we will include the beta values and other small data files used to construct Figures 2, 5 and 6 on the same website.”

Again, thank you for agreeing to make your results and output available, though as above please could you do this via a persistent, public repository.

I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Best wishes,
Helen McGregor

Dear Dr Smerdon,

Please revise the references in the manuscript.

Best wishes, Helen
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Associate Professor Helen McGregor
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences 
University of Wollongong Australia