We thank the China Meteorological Administration for sharing the hourly surface air temperature(SAT)series(http://data.cma.cn).We enjoyed fruitful discussions with Axel Tim-mermann.The reanalysis datasets used for this study are from the JRA-55 long-term reanalysis cooperative research project carried out by the Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA)and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry(CRIEPI).The MERRA-2 data used in this study/project have been pro-vided by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office(GMAO)at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.The authors acknowl-edge the collaboration in the CLM-community where the COSMO-CLM is maintained and further development takes place.The German Climate Computing Center(DKRZ)pro-vided the computer hardware for the simulations. （SAT）