Whilst the reviews clearly recognise the merit of this paper. I thank the reviewers for their thorough discussion and the authors for their careful consideration of the reviews, I do not feel the authors have fully addressed the reviewers comments and I note several places where the authors state that they do not understand the reviewers points.

If that is the case please try to simply provide the evidence requested in the point.

With regard to the review of Frederic Schenk:

Please can you provide a discussion of why your results from a cave record at a high elevation from the Southern Alps can be used to challenge commonly held views on extreme YD seasonality in other regions? Please could you clarify what is it about your record, and what evidence is there, that means you can make inferences beyond the local area?

Please could you also clarify and provide a fuller explanation for why you can claim that the changes shown in your record apply to the south of the Alps?

With regard to reviewer 2:

Please can you explain how figure 6 backs up your conclusions? Please describe the evidence shown in figure 6 and how it evidences your conclusions.

I am happy to accept the paper for publication, subject to addressing the minor changes in Report 1. Sincere thanks to both the authors and two excellent reviewers for their thorough work on this paper.

Many thanks for the edits and corrections, best wishes, Mary