“…Also of note is the cooler lower troposphere over Pakistan and North India in SIME-CAM5 compared to CTRL-CAM5. This is very unlikely to be related to the reduced WD activity in SIME-CAM5, since WDs are known to reduce near-surface temperature in this region through enhanced cloud cover, snowfall, and by advection of cool air from higher latitudes (Hunt et al, 2018b;Singh et al, 2019;Sandeep and Prasad, 2020). Instead, this may be related to a continued strengthening of the Karakoram anomaly (Farinotti et al, 2020) or increased cloudburst activity (Kumar et al, 2018).…”