Dear authors,

pending a few minor corrections, you paper can be published in GMD. Please consider the reviewer comments below when preparing your final manuscript.

Kind regards

Heiko Goelzer


ll. 197-199 Please check language, is “of” needed after because?

Figure 4 caption: No need to mention the litter fall time series here as they are not included in the figure.

l. 530 “relatively more time” ? Please, check language.

ll. 528-533: I am happy that the authors went their way to reason why only a single ice core dataset was used to reconstruct climate histories. However, I am not entirely convinced by the first point (1) which basically states that more ice core data were not included because they would have taken more time compile and/or they could have contradicted with the one that was used.

There are many cases where references are not in chronological order, which, I understand, is the authors’ citing style of choice.

Dear Authors,

thank you for your final revisions of the manuscript, which is now ready to go into production. Congratulations for your careful work and thank you for your patience with the long review process during these difficult times.

Kind regards
Heiko Goelzer