For the first submission of the GRL manuscript, the processed, intermediate data for the finite-amplitude wave activity budget analysis for the Southern Annular Mode are released in the following gateway directories: 1) time series of the zonal wind eddy momentum convergence and their density-weighted vertically averages are at /SAM_CL_data_sharing/UZ_MZ_ts/ 2) the budget analysis and the output are located as /SAM_CL_data_sharing/LFAWA_budget_ts/