“…In particular, it is possible, though unlikely due to the rarity of blocking events, that larger blocks increase the time‐mean width of the jet. Furthermore, the strength and latitude of the jet, and w and λ are interconnected (Barnes & Polvani, ; Barnes & Screen, ; Kidston & Vallis, ; Peings et al, , ; Ronalds et al, ). To quantitatively separate the effects of these parameters on each other, controlled experiments using linear response functions can be used (Hassanzadeh & Kuang, , , , ; Khodkar et al, ; Ma et al, ); this is left for future work.…”