Dear Elizabeth,

Thank you and the team for a detailed and thorough set of responses to the reviews and the comment by the PAGES data team. Your responses look excellent. I would like to invite you to submit the full manuscript incorporating the revisions you have detailed in the responses. Once I have read your latest version I can then make a final decision.

With very best wishes,

Chris

Dear Liz,

Thanks very much. I must apologise for the delay. I've been away and just catching up.

Through the PAGES 2k Network we're working towards having all data publicly available. Before I accept the manuscript can you resolve the following issues:
All of the datasets listed in the data source table need to be available through a public repository. As a result the original data needs URL/doi links. The following are not acceptable: “NSIDC”, “Antarctic 2k”, “Presented in Ekaykin et al., 2014”… For those data not already in a persistent public repository, please submit essential metadata (including the name of the Antarctica region to which it was assigned in this study) along with the accumulation time series itself. I also could not locate Table S1 in the CP manuscript submission files. Please include it.

Hope this sounds doable. Give me a shout if any problems and thanks once again for a great submission.

All the very best, Chris