Interactive comment on "Joint effect of the western and eastern Pacific warm pools on ENSO cycle" by Q. Qi et al.

The article presents comments on the article "Joint Effect of the Western and Eastern Pacific Warm Pools on El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle." It notes that the authors have used a very long datasets and have made a number of points about the changes in climatology over the period, however, the sources of data failed to discuss the changes on temperatures. It also observes that the data has assumed the value of the expansion and contraction of the warm pools and has confused the correlation between the cause and effect.