Dear Carlye and Lorraine,

thank you for your replies to the comments of the reviewers. Please submit a revised version of your manuscript along the line you suggested in your rebuttal. Please also make sure to include your response to the review by A. Schmittner in your revision.
You are undoubtedly well aware of the fact that paleoclimate data synthesis is complicated due to the fragmented and non-standardised archiving of such data. With the special issue we would like to foster best practices in data handling so I encourage you to pay particular attention to ensure traceability of the used datasets as suggested by the first reviewer. I look forward to receiving your updated manuscript.

Kind regards, Lukas Jonkers

Dear Carlye,

I have read the revised version of your manuscript on deglacial carbon cycle changes. You have responded well to the reviewers and I am happy to accept the manuscript after a few minor changes.

I appreciate your effort to compile the source information for all the records and thank you again for submitting your paper to our special issue.

kind regards, Lukas Jonkers

Suggested minor changes:
P1, L2: change 'and well-suited' to improve flow of sentence.
P5, L18: insert 'the' between 'to' and 'deglacoal', italicise p in pCO2
P5, L19: shouldn't it be François et al 1997, instead of Franois?
P6, L23: I assume that the other time series from the South Atlantic did not meet the criteria. Is that correct? Can you add a short sentence why only these were added and no other records published since 2014?
P6, L32: add 'dating' after 'radiocarbon'.
P8, L24: please add a brief description of the rationale behind using this metric.
Table 1: add description of what AP stands for
Table 1: I don't seem to be able to find a subscript m in the table