Precipitation Extremes and Their Synoptic Models in the Northwest European Sector of the Arctic during the Cold Season
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments on a research article “Precipitation extremes and their synoptic models in the North-West European sector of the Arctic during the cold season”
Recommendation: Accept after minor revisions.
In the abstract, the main findings are not adequately expressed. Please emphasize on highlighting the main finding in the abstract.
Please provide the latitude and longitude of the station given in Figure 1.
On what bases do the authors say that the daily precipitation time series cannot be satisfactorily described by any model of the known probability distribution law. Clarify it?
Figure clarity must be improved. In some figures difficult to read x-axis and y-axis numbers. Focus on Figures clarity.
Please add a mechanism how you may say that Air from the temperate latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean moves towards the Barents Sea region. Clarify it.
Please avoid general statements. For example - However, the strongest episodes did not fall into this distribution. For them, the correspondence between the absolute value of the anomaly and its probability is completely lost, thus signifying that any anomaly can occur. However, they do not exceed the marginal values that are typical for this type of climate and season. This effect appears to be one of saturation when the limit is approached
Re-write such statements. Please be specific about what you want to point out to maintain readability. Discuss the event, particularly, instead of being general.
The authors should take care of typo errors. For example – in many places 0 symbols are not used.
In the conclusion, such statement “Let us focus on the widely used practice” must be avoided.
"Intensive cyclones penetrate the Arctic more often during climate warming" -- please interpret more on this robust claim.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
1. The introduction needs a restructuring. In third para, authors are stating the objectives and after words they are going back to introducing the area/importance/literature.
2. Kindly provide lat/lon for the site map on x and y axis. It is just a snapshot from Google Earth, which is not representing the locations of stations.
3. There are no numbers on the equations. Kindly number your equations.
4. Also, please provide references of these equations where needed.
5. Figure 2 and 3: What the x and y axis represents? What blue and orange points indicate. Kindly include these descriptions in the Figure caption.
6. Why Pareto Distribution? What is the advantage of considering Pareto distribution over other available distributions in the present study? Justify with proper references.
7. Figure 4-6 are not making any clear mark on the work. Kindly replot them by considering that most of the readers will not be aware of the statistical dispersion of data or investigating one point moving out of the curve as it is in the present case.
8. Figure 8: Why you have adopted the thermodynamic diagram from Wyoming as it is? You could have plotted it using T and Td lines with better representations and imposing CAPE/CIN/EL/LCL/LFC all things. The present diagram is not making any sense in the paper. Even the explanation it need, is not present.
9. Same goes true with Figure 10. Kindly do not mix thermodynamic diagrams with schematic of clouds with your understanding.
10. Conclusion should be in bullet points to avoid confusion to readers.
11. Please try to make the language of the paper simple with more physical explanations rather talking about mathematics. The authors should remember that the readers may not be having similar mathematical/statistical proficiency as of them and it will be very hard to understand or to make any significance of the present work if the physical explanation is not simplified.
Author Response
I send our notes to Reviewer 2 (see Rev2.docx)
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I am happy to see that most of the comments have been "Done".
