“…Other statistical prediction systems report skillful detrended SIE predictions for forecasts initialized after 1 May, but not prior to this date, consistent with a spring predictability barrier (Kapsch et al., 2014; Lindsay et al., 2008; Liu et al., 2015; Petty et al., 2017; Schröder et al., 2014; Walsh et al., 2019; Williams et al., 2016; Yuan et al., 2016). Similarly, while not necessarily mentioning a spring barrier, other studies documenting the detrended Arctic SIE prediction skill of dynamical prediction systems display a barrier‐like skill structure corresponding to initialization month May (Dirkson et al., 2019; Merryfield et al., 2013; Msadek et al., 2014; Sigmond et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2013).…”