Atlantic control of the late nineteenth-century Sahel humid period

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The authors thank editor Dr. Barlow as well as Dr. Vellinga and the other anonymous reviewer for their duty and helpful comments. We are grateful to David Gallego for his comments and discussion on the ASWI. We acknowledge NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information for providing the ERSST.v4 data (at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd). We thank also the authors of C1A15 and NI12 for making their time series freely available (at https://www.upo.es/investigacion/incite/dirindex.htm and ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/historical/africa, respectively). This work is the result of a 3-month stay of J.V. at LOCEAN/IPSL at Paris, France, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) with support for short stays (EEBB-I-16-10979-MINECO) within the scholarship he has been granted (BES-2013-063821-MINECO). The research leading to these results has received funding from the projects PREFACE (EUFP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement 603521) and PRE-4CAST (CGL2017-86415-R). This work was granted access to the HPC resources of TGCC under the allocation 2015-017403 and 2016-017403 made by GENCI. This study also benefited from the IPSL mesocenter facility, which is supported by CNRS, UPMC, Labex L-IPSL (funded by the ANR Grant ANR-10-LABX-0018 and by the European FP7 IS-ENES2 Grant 312979).