dear Martin
we now got 3 reviews back and thise all suggest minor
revisions. they make suggestions to improve the paper and i would like to ask you to work an a revised version. please also try to include recent papers on this topic if possible to update the analysis to 2015 including the EuroMed 2k consortium paper published in Env Res Lett in Jan 2016 and improve the english language.
looking forward to the revised version
best wishes
Juerg

Dear Martin

thanks very much for your new version. Can I please ask you for some additional changings/additions.
I mentioned to update your reconstruction to 2015. You have presented it to 2012. It would be nice to have the last couple of years as well and I can imagine, that data would be available. This would mean to update the figures also. I think it would be worthwile to do so.
Another point I mentioned was to add a couple of references and comparison with for instance with Luterbacher et al. 2004 and 2016. I saw you did include this in the figure but the main text does not include a judgment/assessment how well your reconstruction performs compared to all the other data you have used. It would be important to add a bit of text about this comparison.

In Fig 5 and subsequent, it is not clear to me why over the past decades the one recon is systematically higher than the other one. It would be nice if you could explain this in the main text more pronounced.
Please also correct in Fig 5 verificaton to verification

In Fig 9 you use 31 year running correlations but you dont mention the signifance for it taking also in consideration the degree of freedom from autocorrelations. It would be important to modify the text related to any figure with running correlations and just mention those periods for which the running correlation exceeds the significance levels.

you might also add the following reference of a paper that was published recently.
B. Cook et al. Nature Climate Change and references therein

with my best wishes and thank you very much

Jürg

dear Martin

thanks very much fir addressing the different points and implementing in this version.
I am happy to accept your paper and congratulations!

thanks very much for choosing Clim Past.

best wishes

Juerg