Dear Eva Bauer and Andrey Ganopolski,

your paper 'Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach' submitted to Climate of the Past has now received two reviews and one comment.
Key points were the resolution issue and the demand for a better description of the SEB module. In general major revisions of the ms. are required before it eventually might become suitable for publication in Climate of the Past.
You have replied to the points raised by the reviewers. I believe that the paper will be greatly improved by the modification of the ms. which you suggested.

Sincerely Yours

Uwe Mikolajewicz

Dear Eva Bauer and Andrey Ganopolski,

the revised version of your paper 'Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach' submitted to Climate of the Past has now been reviewed by the same reviewers as the first version. Both reviewers consider this paper to be strongly improved compared to the originally submitted ms. and of high scientific significance I share this view.

There are, however, quite some minor issues which need to be improved before your paper could become suitable for publication in Climate of the Past. These issues relate mostly to the clarity of presentation. Here some improvement is possible. I consider the required changes to be minor.

Please reply to all points raised by the reviewers and submit a modified ms..

Best reagrds

Uwe MIkolajewicz

Dear Eva Bauer and Andrey Ganopolski,

I found your revised version of your paper 'Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach' to be almost suitable for publication in Climate of the Past. However, there are a few minor issues left. There are still some typos and the final version of the conclusions contains some incomplete editing. Details below. In some places the language is clearly Russian English (e.g. the usual the/a problem). The final language editing should fix the problem.

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

Sincerely yours

Uwe Mikolajewicz


Details:
p1l9 parameter-s
p1l14 the evolution of the ice sheets
p2l2 season-s
p2l10 of a glacial cycles5
p6l30 and Fig. 2 make clear in caption of Fig.2 that Europe is defined as reaching to 120E

mess in editing:
p11l10-13
p11l20 which -that- simulated
p11l26 to be problematic