Dear Dr. Yamamoto,

I have read with attention the reviews of your manuscript entitled “Glacial CO2 decrease and deep-water deoxygenation by iron fertilization from glaciogenic dust”, as well as your responses to the Reviewers’ comments.
I invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript, implementing the changes you described in the response to Reviewers. I should mention that A. Schmittner said that the paper by Khatiwala et al. was unofficially accepted.
Looking forward receiving your revised manuscript,

Best regards,
Laurie Menviel

Dear Dr. Yamamoto,
Thank you for submitting a revised version of your manuscript.
I am pleased to accept your paper for publication in Climate of the Past.
Please take into account the comments below to make a few minor corrections to your revised manuscript before publication. Please also include the mandatory sections on data availability and author contribution.
Thank you for choosing Climate of the Past.
Best regards,
Laurie

Please note that pages and line numbers refer to the manuscript with track-changes.

Abstract: Please use only present tense. For example: L. 8: “We find”, L.22: “Our model underestimates”

P17, L. 62-63: “atmospheric CO2 is not directly transferred to the deep ocean”
Maybe you can rephrase as a “transfer of carbon from the atmosphere to the deep ocean”

P23, L.27: “a slight EP increase is found”
P24, L. 85: Please add reference to Khatiwala et al. accepted.
P25, L. 26: “a glacial CO2 decrease of more than 30 ppm”
P25, L. 31-p26, L. 48: “important for the atmospheric CO2 response (Roth et al., 2014; Wallmann et al., 2016).“
P26, L. 52: “EP increases …and…the nutrient increase are smaller”
P28, L.36: “the underestimation of deoxygenation”
P29, L.72: I would suggest to remove “In conclusion, “
P29, L. 73: Please change “responsible for the glacial CO2 decline of greater than 30 ppm” to “could explain a glacial CO2 decline of more than 30 ppm” or “decline greater than 30 ppm”

Please add a section on Data availability: The results of your simulations have to be deposited in a public directory. More information is available here:
https://www.climate-of-the-past.net/for_authors/manuscript_preparation.html


Please add Author contribution: Authors are required to add a section "Author contribution" before the acknowledgements in which the contributions of all co-authors are briefly described.