Dear Dr. Inglis

Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled « Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene» to Climate of the Past.

Your manuscript has been read by two anonymous reviewers. While the two reviewers recognize the importance of your work, they also ask for substantial modifications of your manuscript with a lot fo similarities. Reviewer 1 ranked the paper as requiring a major round of revisions while the second one choose minor revisions. They both ask for a largest inclusion of deep-mip simulations in order to quantify the uncertainty on the calculation of GMST and other details coming from climate models you’d used to build on your methods.

I read your answers to the reviewers and I’ve appreciated the way you answered to each comment. I encourage you to clarify points in your revised paper, by providing the readers a reasonable level of confidence on your GMST estimates.

I will send back the revised manuscript to the reviewer 1 - this should be fast given your already detailed answers to reviewers.

I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript. If you have any questions, please contact the editorial office at editorial@copernicus.org
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Sincerely,

Yannick Donnadieu

Dear Dr. Inglis

Thank you for having submitted your manuscript entitled « Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene» to Climate of the Past. Your paper and the revisions have been reviewed by the referee 1 with the recommandation to publish the paper as it is.

I'm pleased to accept your paper for publication.

Sincerely,

Yannick Donnadieu