Dear Fanny Lhardy,

After reading both of the Reviewer's comments and your responses, I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript.

Please take into account all of the Reviewers’ detailed and constructive comments when revising your manuscript, as already indicated in your responses.
In particular, both reviewers are requesting you to present a comparison to a preindustrial simulations with the "sinking brines" parameterisation. As well as describing the parameterisation itself more clearly.
I agree that this would be beneficial and it should be feasible from the computational perspective.

I am looking forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Best regards,

Alice Marzocchi

Dear Fanny Lhardy,

I have received 2 reviews of your revised manuscript. Based on these reviews, your manuscript may be suitable for publication in Climate of the Past after some minor revisions.

Once again, both reviewers provided constructive comments and suggestions, so please address those as thoroughly as possible.

Reviewer 1 is requesting some clarifications/discussion about the AMOC for both the PI and LGM simulations and the changes (or lack thereof) between the two states; I agree that these are necessary.
When addressing their point 1, also compare the AMOC strength to available observational estimates (e.g. from the RAPID array) and explicitly report the range of the mean AMOC strength for the different experiments and how this differs from the observations.

Reviewer 2 is suggesting some additional minor changes and improvements, so please also address these.

In addition, it may also be useful to compare some of your results to the (physical) changes observed in the recently-published PI and LGM simulations of Moreé et al. (CP, 2021 - doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-753-2021), where the two ocean states and model biases are evaluated against a broad range of proxy-based estimates and climate simulations.

I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Best regards,
Alice Marzocchi

Dear Fanny Lhardy and co-authors,

Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript and addressing the remaining comments from the reviewers and myself.

I am pleased to accept your manuscript for publication in Climate of the Past and only requesting you to consider a couple more minor corrections/typos that I am listing below:

Line 311: "maximums" should be "maxima"

Line 375: to be a little more accurate, rather than saying "usually", modify this to something like: "as inferred from the majority of the proxy data".
And to complete this statement, add at least a few references here of studies that suggest an AMOC weakening and shoaling of the AMOC at the LGM as inferred by proxy data (e.g. Curry and Oppo, 2005) or in addition you could also refer to some other modelling studies.

All the best,
Alice Marzocchi