Extreme Rainfall Variability in Australia: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictability

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We thank the editor for handling our submission and we thank Milton Speer and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments, which have improved this manuscript. Andrew King and Lisa Alexander were supported by Australian Research Council Grant CE110001028. Markus Donat was supported by Australian Research Council Grant LP100200690. Nicolas Jourdain was funded by Australian Research Council Grant DP110100601. Nicholas Klingaman was funded by the U.K. National Centre for Atmospheric Science, a Natural Environment Research Council collaborative center, under Contract R8/H12/83/001. We thank the Bureau of Meteorology, the Bureau of Rural Sciences, and CSIRO for providing the Australian Water Availability Project data. The Twentieth Century Reanalysis V2 data were provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, from their website (at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/). Support for the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project dataset is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (DOE INCITE) program and Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office. HadISST SSTs were provided by the Met Office. IBTrACS data were provided by the National Climatic Data Center.