Dear author,

Many thanks for the submission of your highly interesting paper. It is certainly a well written manuscript, which we will gladly accept for publication after minor revisions. Please follow the suggestions of the reviewers. Regarding your reply to review #1: of course, you want to avoid a repetition of already published arguments. Nonetheless, I regard it as useful if you could add a few more details on the advantages of your methods in comparison to ordinal climate indices. Also, a discussion chapter would underline the significance of your results as reviewer #2 suggests.
If it is not too complicated in regard to the copy rights, I would also highly appreciate it if you add one picture of Navarrete’s manuscript in the source description.

I thank the two reviewers for their very useful reports.

Dear author,

Many thanks for your revised manuscript, which I like very much. It is ready for publication - there is only one (rather technical) point: I propose adding one publication of Mariano Barriendos and his team in the state of the art (p. 1, lines 24-25). It is clear that your list is not exhaustive, but as Barriendos published many papers based on documentary data, it would make the state of the art a bit more complete.
I thank the referees for their thorough and useful reviews.

Kind regards,