Extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic and western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for proxy interpretation

Pinto, Joaquim G.; Ludwig, Patrick

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-611-2020

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-611-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-611-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

Research article

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01 Apr 2020

Research article |

| 01 Apr 2020

Extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic and western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for proxy interpretation

Joaquim G. Pinto and Patrick Ludwig

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RC1: 'Review of Extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic and Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for proxy interpretation by Pinto and Ludwig', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer #1', Joaquim G. Pinto, 12 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review of “Extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic and Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for proxy interpretation”', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Jan 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to reviewer #2', Joaquim G. Pinto, 12 Feb 2020
SC1: 'Two small comments', Marcus Lofverstrom, 21 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to short comment', Joaquim G. Pinto, 12 Feb 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Feb 2020) by Alessio Rovere

AR by Joaquim G. Pinto on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Mar 2020) by Alessio Rovere

AR by Joaquim G. Pinto on behalf of the Authors (04 Mar 2020)

Short summary

The statistics and characteristics of cyclones over the North Atlantic and Europe are analysed for Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate conditions. LGM extreme cyclones were more frequent and characterised by less precipitation and stronger wind speeds than pre-industrial analogues. These results agree with the view of a colder and drier Europe during LGM, with little vegetation and affected by frequent dust storms, leading to the buildup of thick loess deposits in Europe.