Dear Annalena A. Lochte et al.,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript “Surface and subsurface Labrador Shelf water mass conditions during the last 6,000 years” to Climate of the Past, and for your response to the three reviewers’ comments.

Based on the reviewers’ comments and your responses I would like to invite you to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript, where your responses to the reviewers’ comments are implemented. Please make it visible through track-changes where and what changes you have done in the revised manuscript.

Thanks again for submitting your manuscript to CP.

Best regards,
Bjørg Risebrobakken
Editor, Climate of the Past

Dear Annalena A. Lochte et al.,

Thank you for submitting your revised version of the manuscript “Surface and subsurface Labrador Shelf water mass conditions during the last 6,000 years”. I will accept the paper subject to technical corrections.

I very much appreciate the sentence added at page 6, line 11-13, adding caution with respect to the absolute BWT when exceeding 4°C. I agree with you that the pattern of variability will be the same, even though the absolute temperatures might change with a better constrained calibration, however, I would ask you to visualize this caution in the figures showing the BWT dataset, e.g. by adding a horizontal line at the 4°C level.

Somewhat related, at page 8, line 26-31 you discuss potential reasons for the temperature inversion seen between the mean SST and BWT. Please acknowledge that the mean BWT given might be biased due to the uncertainty of the absolute values given by the restrictions of the calibration used.

Thanks again for submitting your manuscript to CP. I look forward to seeing your paper published.

Best regards,
Bjørg Risebrobakken
Editor, Climate of the Past