Thank you for the responses to the reviewer comments on this manuscript. In general I feel that the responses are adequate to address the reviewer comments and therefore invite you to submit a full revision of the paper. However, the changes are extensive enough that I would like to review the final revised manuscript as a whole before accepting the paper. I note that the responses refer to a revised manuscript but the CP review process would not have requested a revision of the manuscript prior to now as far as I know, and I do not see a revision in the system. If the revision is available now I can proceed with that document.

I anticipate that there might be some additional technical corrections once I see the entire manuscript but hopefully those will be small. I do not anticipate getting input from the reviewers again, although this may be needed for specific points.

I note a few things that came up for me while reading the responses:
Can you clarify the availability of the data used here? The metadata look very complete, but it is not obvious to me that anyone could find all of the data used in the paper, though I may have missed something. For example, Table S1 refers to A2k without citation, Masson (2008) (is this the Journal of Climate paper or a data set?), a personal communication but not clear from whom, and GNIP/IAEA with no reference. I do see that some of this is discussed in the revisions outlined in the response to referee 2, but even there the reference to a web site at LSCE is not a clear pointer to the data and it is not clear where the data from Fernandoy can be found. Is there a place where the authors will compile the complete data sets used in the paper? I believe this would be very valuable.

Why did you choose to compare the first three seasonal cycles to the mean, rather than some other number? Would the standard deviation decrease if you chose 5?

The new captions for Table 6-8 described in the responses are very long sentences, can they be revised?

Thank you for your revised manuscript. I am comfortable with the revisions you made in response to the reviewers. I have read through the manuscript and made a number of small comments or suggestions for clarity, these are in the attached pdf file. I would like to ask you to address these issues prior to final acceptance. In addition, I would like to ask that you indicate in the paper where the data base you created will be archived. I understand that it will go to PANGAEA, which is good, but I think the reader should be told that they can look for it there. (I did not see this mentioned in the paper, my apologies if I missed it).

Some of my comments are simply corrections to the English. The paper is readable for the most part but even after these corrections it could benefit from a quick edit with English usage in mind.