Dear Dr. Vorrath,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript “Sea Ice dynamics at the Western Antarctic Peninsula during the industrial era: a multi-proxy intercomparison study” to “Climate of the Past”. As you are aware, your manuscript has been evaluated by two reviewers. Both reviewers are very positive in their comments, recommending publication after minor revisions.

I thus invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript taking all review comments into accounts. I note from your answers that there are some of the reviewers’ comments that you would prefer not to follow. Note that likely other readers will raise the same questions as the reviewers and therefore it will be a good idea to explain your choices in the manuscript, .e.g, regarding your use of the ENSO data from Li et al. (2013) vs. other ENSO datasets.

As always, when you choose to resubmit, please reply to all reviewers’ comments in detail and mark clearly any changes made to the manuscript in the text through highlights or track-changes.

Kind regards,
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
co-Editor in Chief, Climate of the Past

Dear Dr. Vorrath,

Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript now named “Sea Ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait during the past 240 years: a multi-proxy intercomparison” to “Climate of the Past”. I am happy to see your corrections and am almost ready to accept your manuscript. I only have a few additional comments, most of which are technical, only one is a request for a minor addition (to the conclusion).

Minor revision:

The conclusions paragraph provides a short summary of the units. However, I miss reference to the actual environmental development seen in figure 8, which I feel is an excellent representation of the environmental development. It would improve the paper if this environmental interpretation is included in the conclusions.




Technical comments:

Based on previous comments you have changed “Western Antarctic Peninsula” to “Bransfield Strait”. However, many readers will not know where Bransfield Strait is located, so please add a qualifieder such as ”Antarctic Peninsula” after “Bransfiedl Strait” to the title.

Fig 1: Explain the starts (core sites) in (b) and the red and yellow flowerlike symbols in (a), either in the figure captions or preferably in the legend.
Fig 2: add to figure captions that ages prior to 1880 are based on radiometric dating.

I invite you consider these above comments and to submit a new further revised version of your. As always, please mark clearly any changes made to the manuscript in the text through highlights or track-changes.

Kind regards,
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz