Dear Authors,

Both referees have reviewed your revised manuscript again. While one reviewer finds the paper acceptable, the comments of the other are substantial. The choice to use CMIP3 instead of CMIP5 is understandable. However, I do agree with the comments on the multimodel aspects of the pattern scaling approach which is not sufficiently shown in the application if only UKMO models are used. Please respond to the concerns of the reviewer, and submit a revised manuscript showing such a multi-model application,

Kind regards,
Wilco Hazeleger

Dear authors,

Thank you for the revised manuscript. The reviewer suggests minor revisions, but has some substantial remarks as well. In particular the diligence of revising the text. I am taking over the suggestion for minor revisions, but would like to suggest that you revise the manuscript accordingly, in particular updating the literature review and discussions such that the paper is actually state-of-the-art,

Kind regards,
Wilco Hazeleger

Dear authors

Thank you for your revised manuscript. It is almost ready for publication. I have a few small remarks that I put in the pdf (I hope you can read it). It would be good to submit the final revised version soon,

Kind regards
Wilco Hazeleger

Dear all,

Your manuscript is accepted for publication now. Thank you for submitting to GMD. I appreciate the efforts that you took to respond to all remarks from referees and myself,

Kind regards,
Wilco Hazeleger