Dear Dr. Sherriff-Tadano,

I have now read the Reviewers' reports, comments and your answers to the comments.
I invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript, implementing the changes you highlighted in your responses.
Please also find below a few additional comments/suggestions.

Looking forward receiving your revised manuscript.
Best regards,
Laurie

L. 329-330: The meaning of that sentence is unclear to me.
L. 337 (and elsewhere): Please consider changing “strengthening of surface cooling” into “a stronger surface cooling” or “a decrease in surface temperature”.
Please remove the bullet points from the Conclusion
L. 419-420: Please slightly amend the sentence so that it is clear that some climate model outputs are available for MIS3 (even if less so than for the LGM), and consider also adding the MIS3 simulation performed with LOVECLIM.

Figure 9a: Consider changing the colours of some lines (e.g. the 2 green and 2 purple lines can be confusing).
Schematic (Fig. 11): The impact of Southern Ocean sea-ice on AMOC is unclear to me
Answer to Reviewer 2 (point 11): You state that stronger wind, strengthen the wind driven circulation and meridional oceanic heat transport (as seen in Fig. 6). However, you also suggest that this leads to further cooling in the North Atlantic. I agree that stronger wind will enhance ocean heat release in the North Atlantic, acting to cool the ocean and warm the atmosphere. However the stronger wind-driven circulation and enhanced meridional oceanic heat transport should lead to a warming of the North Atlantic.

Figure S1 (In the answer to Reviewer 2), c) should be MIS3-5aice

Dear Sam Sheriff-Tadano,

Referee 1 provided a second review of your manuscript, only raising a few minor points. I have also read your paper with attention and added a few minor comments in the attached pdf. I think your article is very interesting and is a great contribution to our understanding of glacial climate. I am happy to accept your manuscript for publication in Climate of the Past.
Thank you for taking into account the comments raised by the referee and myself in your revised version.

Best regards,
Laurie