Dear authors

I am grateful for your patience during editorial process, and for your detailed responses to the reviewers comments. Given the importance of reviewer #2 comments, I recommend the paper for major revisions so that the reviewers can have another look at your revised work. Please address all reviewer concerns directly, which may include, but is not limited to, the changes you proposed in your author responses. Please also address the concerns from the Data Stewardship Team (where I know you are well on your way). The revised manuscript is subject to approval by the reviewers and the editor before a final decision on publication is made.

Many thanks
Hans

Dear Mandy Freund and co-authors

Your paper submitted to Climate of the Past has now completed the review phase. As you can see, both reviewers are positive, and only minor changes in the text are needed. Moreover, additional information regarding the data availability is also needed as follows: 1) Add a data availability section to include details on where the input data are archived, including the primary input and output data in this study; 2)Submit the primary outcome of this study, the regional rainfall reconstructions for cool and warm seasons (Fig 5), to a public repository and include the Data Citation in "Data Availability"; 3) Archive the instrumental time-series targets for the reconstructions (Fig 4) along with the reconstructions; 4) Archive Table S1 along with the other data sets from this study; 5) Replace all “NA” in the URL column of Table S1 with a persistent identifier (URL or doi).

I look forward to seeing your revised manuscript

Regards
Hans Linderholm

Dear Mandy and co-authors

Many thanks for your revised manuscript. As you have made all the requested changes, I'm happy to accept it.

All the best
Hans