Dear Authors,

I am now in receipt of the reviews of your manuscript. On the basis of these reviews, it appears that the manuscript must undergo Major Revision before it can be considered for publication in the GMD. Particularly, the major issue is still regarding the lack of discussion of feedbacks and interactions of clouds, circulation, and aerosols within the climate system. These reviews are attached or enclosed below.

In particular, I strongly encourage you to follow the recommendations of the reviewer #1.

Please contact me if you have any concerns or questions. I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.


Best,
Topical Editor,
Min-Hui Lo

Dear Authors,

I am now in receipt of the reviews of your manuscript entitled "The Monash Simple Climate Model Experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): An interactive database of mean climate, climate change and scenario simulations".

On the basis of the reviews and my own evaluation, it appears that the manuscript needs to undergo Major Revision. Particularly, please address reviewer #1's comments about the cloud feedbacks.

Please contact me if you have any concerns or questions. I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Regards,

Dr. Min-Hui Lo
Topical Editor
GMD

Dear Authors,

I have couples comments for your revised manuscript:

1. Can you acknowledge the issue of missing cloud feedback and its consequence on the abstract? I would also suggest that you can include couple sentences based on those references that you cited (about the cloud feedbacks) to illustrate the importance of cloud feedbacks or what the impacts could be without considering the cloud feedbacks.

2. Line 151: “In some aspects of these experiments”,
please be more specific.

3. Line 416: “It seems likely that the meridional heat transport is the main limitation in the GREB model, given the too warm tropical regions and the, in general, too cold polar regions and the too strong seasonal cycle in the polar regions in the GREB model without correction terms.”

You nicely mentioned the impacts of the meridional heat transport. Can you also indicate the consequence of lacking the cloud feedback on the simulations?

4. Line 463-466: ”Previous studies on the cloud cover effect on the overall climate mostly focus on the radiative forcings estimates, but to our best knowledge do not present the overall change in surface temperature [e.g. Rossow and Zhang 1995].”

While it does not significantly affect the surface temperature, the lack of cloud feedbacks can affect the radiative forcings estimates. Thus, can you elaborate it more on how the radiative forcings might be affected?

5. Line 825:826: “need to be studied with more complex climate models,”

is it possible to study this using the GREB model? And how?