Response to comment on "Multiyear prediction of monthly mean atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5°N"

Abstract

Vecchi et al. question the skill of our initialized multiyear predictions of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), arguing that our predictions do not outperform their suggested climatological reference forecast-using a single measure of skill. We show that our initialized AMOC predictions do outperform the climatological reference forecast, using both measures of hindcast performance that were presented in our original paper.