Peter van Rensch^1,2, Julie Arblaster^2,3, Ailie Gallant⁴, Wenju Cai⁵, Neville Nicholls⁴ and Paul James Durack⁶, (1)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (2)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (5)Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, (6)Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States