Dear authors,

Thank you for your comprehensive responses to the referee reports.

Both referees raised a number of valid issues, and both referees have recommended publication of the manuscript after minor revisions. The revisions that you have proposed appear to represent a satisfactory response to the referees' comments.

Therefore, please proceed to upload the revised version of the manuscript.

Steven Phipps
Topical Editor

Dear authors,

Thank you for submit a revised version of the manuscript.

I have carefully reviewed the revised manuscript, as well as your responses to the reports by the referees. I consider that your responses to the referees' comments are satisfactory.

I am therefore delighted to accept your manuscript for publication in Climate of the Past, subject to you considering the following technical corrections:

* Page 3, lines 10-12: Please revise this sentence, as Section 2 does not follow Section 3.

* Page 3, line 32: Remove the quotes around “climate model studies”.

* Page 3, line 33: Remove “an” before “one-way”.

* Page 4, line 3 and Page 20, line 21: in between → between.

* Page 4, line 6: Replace “the” with “an” before “empirical”.

* Page 6, line 2: Replace “but is” with “but which is” or similar.

* Page 6, line 6: “speed up the model” → “speed the model up”.

* Page 9, line 12: “same as in” → “similarly to”.

* Page 9, line 23: “not significant” → “insignificant'”.

* Table 3, caption: I'm not sure about “PI...pre-industrial”. Do you mean “PI: pre-industrial”?

* Page 10, line 18: “best fit of refreezing” → “best fit to refreezing”?

* Figure 3, caption: remove “a” before “SMB”.

* Page 12, line 14: “is shown” → “are shown”.

* Page 13, line 33: “between which” → “between those which”.

* Page 14, line 7: “… pattern. Because, using ...” → “… pattern, because using ...”.

* Page 15, line 9: Please rewrite this sentence in the passive voice e.g. “… and analysis of proxy data has revealed with high confidence ...”.

* Page 15, line 27: “… 115ka, the ...” → “… 115ka. The ...”.

* Page 16, line 7: “Especially MAR ...” → “In particular, MAR ...” (or similar).

* Page 16, line 27: Please use a more technical word than “smeared” e.g. “smoothed”.

* Page 17, line 6: “The” → “A”.

* Page 17, line 13: “factor 2” → “factor of 2”.

* Page 18, line 3: Remove “all” before “around”.

* Page 19, line 12: “descent” → “descend”.

* Page 19, line 24: Remove “Basically”.

* Page 21, line 7: “smoothing reasons” → “reasons of temporal smoothing” (or similar).

* Page 21, line 32: “paleo” is a prefix, not a word. Replace with “paleoclimate” or similar.

* Page 22, line 4: “worth” → “worthwhile”.

* Page 22, line 7: Remove “the” before “global”.

* Page 22, line 13 and line 29: “like” → “such as”.

* Page 22, line 17: “is” → “are”.

* Page 22, line 22: I suggest removing “paleo” here, as this comment refers to ice sheet models in general.

Steven Phipps
Handling Editor