Climate Change and Thermal Comfort in Greece

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper analyses the future thermal sensation of population in Greece in the upcoming decades. While being a mostly theoretical work and focused onto a specific country, it provides interesting information.

Section 3 is a bit confuse. One has to read the first sentences several times to understand the relationship between TMY, TDI, etc.

In line 130, the acronym TMM is defined only in the abbreviation list at the end of the paper. I would report the full name of each variable at its first usage. The mathematical definition of TMM should also be given.

I would move the Abbreviation list to the beginning of the paper.

Data reporting in Figs. 3-4 is not so effective, or, at least, their explanation in the test is not (I had to spend some time do understand their meaning). Please enlarge the Figures and implement a more immediate description.

Generally speaking, a thorough work should be made to improve the description of the results as reported in the diagrams.

Author Response

My replies to the comments of Reviewer 1 can be found in the attached pdf file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

This paper reports a very thorough an convincing analysis of the effect of global warming on the thermal aspects of potential future climates in Greece. I have no comments about the purpose, methods, analysis, or discussion of the paper, only minor observations or questions regarding statements in the manuscript.

1. The first sentence of the paper (line 26) says that Earth's climate is changing. This is in fact untrue as Earth has no "climate" ... it has a temperature (i.e., global warming), but since there is no measure of water for Earth, it doesn't have A climate. It does have many climates, though and these are changing due to (as you correctly point out) global warming.
2. On lines 32-34, you write "these studies are focused on either the thermal comfort of people indoors (within a building) or outdoors (ambient conditions). The present work parleys the environmental thermal comfort." What is the difference between "outdoors (ambient conditions)" and "environmental thermal comfort"? It seems that they are the same thing.
3. Table 1 uses a combination of brackets and parentheses around the temperatures for each of the "discomfort levels" ... this may be conventional (I'm not familiar with it), but shouldn't the range of temperatures be simply hyphenated and not enclosed in brackets or parentheses? i.e. 21-24. And is it correct (or maybe confusing) to call these "boundary conditions for TDI" as in line 88? Maybe call them "limits"?
4. The final column in Table 2 uses the term "Altitude". I know that some parts of the world (incorrectly say this all of the time), but the term is correctly called "Elevation" as in digital elevation model. Nobody calls it a digital altitude model.
5. In line 277, the word "least" should be replaced with "the fewest".

Author Response

My replies to the comments of Reviewer 2 can be found in the attached pdf file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf