Dear Dr. Koltai,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript for consideration to “Climate of the Past”. As you are aware we have now received three referee comments. All reviewers were very positive of your manuscript finding it a new and interesting contribution to speleothems studies. I agree, and after carefully reading through your manuscript, all review comments and your answers, I would like to invite you to re-submit your manuscript after minor revisions.

In your re-submission please take into account all reviewers’ comments and correct your manuscript accordingly. If for some reasons you feel that you would prefer not to follow a comment (as have already indicated in your answers), please consider if an additional explanation should be given in the manuscript.

I agree with Reviewer 1 that data should be made available to the community after publication, but it is satisfactory if the authors make the data available on the NOAA and/or PANGAEA websites.

Kind regards,
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Editor