This manuscript assesses climate change impacts to the North Sea and Baltic Sea using the regional bio-physical model ECOSMO forced by output from three CMIP3/A1B and three CMIP5/RCP4.5 global Earth System Models (ESMs). The main findings of the manuscript are similar to those of previous studies. However, the paper is poorly organized and not all the necessary information is presented. It is n...

Existed studies have suggested a precursory relation between Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Niño the Southern Oscillations (ENSO) with 1-year time lag. The underlying mechanisms were attributed to atmospheric bridge and/or oceanic channel processes. In this study, dynamics in 23 climate models of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) are assessed by correlation analyses compar...