Overall, the referees comments have been addressed in the revised manuscript and reply to reviews. Unfortunately the line numbers for the revised text noted in the authors response are not the same as those in the uploaded manuscript, which has made cross-referencing a bit challenging.

Some items require some final correction/clarification:
- referee 1 comments (R1.2.1) on the importance of the geographical mismatch between the temperature and precipitation patterns. In the revised manuscript, the text the authors added is only seen in lines 272-274 ('Geographical pattern mismatch...') and requires some additional explanation. How does a shift in the local convection branch lead to the N-S asymmetry in SST but different response in temperature? A line or two to expand this statement would be useful, perhaps bringing in the referees second comment (R.1.2.2) and the author response (that this is not a signal of currents impacting salinity patterns). There has been no text added to the conclusions, as the reviewer suggested would help to boost this finding.

- Comment R1.2.3 notes cold anomalies during H1 in contrast to your warmer SSTs. I don't think that the reviewer is seeking a detailed discussion of individual proxy records here, but an acknowledgement that other proxies from the region don't give the same trend/pattern across the deglaciation. Please consider whether this can be commented upon, briefly, in your revised manuscript.

- referee 2 (comment 2.2.2 - number 1) refers to 1*C gradient in the YD. The revised abstract still states <0.5*C during YD and instead inserts 1*C to describe the Bolling/Allerod.

- referee 2 (comment 2.2.2 - number 6): this has not been corrected on the revised manuscript. Line 111 still does not include the text 'and data are reported with respect to...'

- referee 2 (comment 2.2.2 - number 19): this has not been corrected on the revised manuscript (line 203)

- referee 2 (comment 2.2.2 - number 21): can you note which northern hemisphere events you are referring to, for example '...hemispheric events (including YD, Bolling/Allerod, H1)...'. It may clarify the tropical-high latitude links.

Thank you for your revised manuscript and the response to referees. Overall the comments have mainly been addressed in the revised manuscript (or detailed in the authors response). Given the citations of key publications for addressing comments R1.2.1 and R1.2.3, your readers will be able to follow up the complexities that you note, although your arguments may have been strengthened further had these been discussed in a little more detail.

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Climate of the Past.