Dear Authors,

Thank you for your detailed comments on the referees' reports! Both referees opted for minor revisions, and I decided to follow their recommendations.

While I am largely satisfied by your response, I would like to ask you to provide a little more detail to two of your answers:

Regarding the point raised in report no. 1 "The glacial state is not well defined in the manuscript. More detail should be given to the difference between the background climate states at the time of the H-events simulated in the model.":
How small are the deviations of the individual pre-surge states from their mean? Please give some numbers. Which figure do you refer to by "Supplement Fig. 1"? It is not part of the initial submission.

Regarding the point raised in report no. 2 "[...] In particular, I see one choice (inherited from the experimental setup described in Ziemen et al, 2014), that deserves further attention or at least a caveat in the manuscript. I.e. C = 1 m/yr/Pa is a very high (and likely unrealistic) value for a linear sliding law [...]":
Is the friction coefficient controlling the basal sliding 10x smaller or larger than in Calov et al. (2002)? What is the reason for such a large range? How sensitive are the results? I propose to give the numerical value of this coefficient in the "Model and coupling" section and touch on its implications in the "Discussion" chapter.

Furthermore, I come back to my initial remark on Figure 7: Please add one or two sentences on how exactly you calculated the Sverdrup transport.

Similarly, please add some latitude and longitude labels to your maps and name the projection that you use.

Finally, I ask you to critically proof-read your manuscript regarding spelling, grammar or even missing words, especially in the newly added paragraphs.

With kind regards,

André Paul

Dear Authors,

Thank you for thoroughly revising your manuscript based on the referees' comments as well as my editorial suggestions. The manuscript is much improved, and I am glad to accept it for publication subject to one correction:

On page 2 of the revised manuscript, you cite "W. Roberts, pers. comm., 2018" and state "that the climate model FAMOUS employed by Roberts et al. (2014b) is rather insensitive to freshwater forcing". Unless you can cite a proper publication, you need to drop this entire sentence. The implication of this unsubstantiated claim would be too large to be based on personal communication only.

Yours sincerely,

André Paul