Comment on "Trends and low frequency variability of extratropical cyclone activity in the ensemble of twentieth century reanalysis" by Xiaolan L. Wang, Y. Feng, G. P. Compo, V. R. Swail, F. W. Zwiers, R. J. Allan, and P. D. Sardeshmukh, Climate Dynamics, 2012
Abstract
The main subject of this article is to comment on the issue of storminess trends derived from the twentieth
century reanalysis (20CR) and from observations in the North Atlantic region written about in Wang et al. (Clim Dyn 40(11–12):2775–2800, 2012). The statement that the
20CR estimates would be consistent with storminess derived from pressure-based proxies does not hold for the time prior to 1950.