title: Response to Comment on "Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures".
abstract: Kravtsov et al. claim that we incorrectly assess the statistical independence of simulated samples of internal climate variability and that we underestimate uncertainty in our calculations of observed internal variability. Their analysis is fundamentally flawed, owing to the use of model ensembles with too few realizations and the fact that no one model can adequately represent the forced signal.
authors.affiliation: Large Lakes Observatory and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA. bsteinma@d.umn.edu.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Steinman
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Frankcombe
authors.affiliation: Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.affiliation: Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: England
mesh_terms: D018534:Earth, Planet; D057232:Global Warming