Dear Dr. de Bar and co-authors,

Thank you for your substantial efforts in responding to the comments of the three reviewers. The reviewers provided extensive but constructive comments on your manuscript, and there is general consensus that the dataset is interesting and the conclusions are relevant to the paleoceanography and organic geochemistry readership of Climate of the Past.

My sense is that your responses address the main technical, interpretive, and clarity concerns of the three reviewers, without overly broadening the scope the manuscript. Thus, I encourage you to formally submit a revised manuscript that incorporates the changes indicated in your detailed responses to the reviewers.

Sincerely,
Alberto Reyes

Dear Dr. de Bar and co-authors,

Thank you for submitting a revised version of your manuscript “A Late Quaternary climate record based on long chain diol proxies from the Chilean margin.” Your revisions have addressed the substantive concerns of the three referees, and I’m pleased to confirm that the paper will be accepted for publication in Climate of the Past.

Please address the very minor technical points identified below, then upload a final revised manuscript for formal acceptance.

Sincerely,
Alberto Reyes


Technical corrections:
Figs 3 and 5: Please indicate the appropriate O and C stable isotope standards for y-axis per-mille units.

ka vs kyr vs kyrs: “kyr” is already plural, so please change all occurrences of “kyrs” to either ka or kyr, as appropriate (both in the text and in figures).