dear authors

we have now received two Reviews, reviewer is rather positive but has some important Points to be addressed.
Reviewer 2 is more critical in many aspects of the paper. I tend to reject the paper as your preliminary answers to the reviewers request are not fully convincing but give you the chance for revisions. Therefore I ask you to address all the suggestions/corrections by the reviewers and send a revised version of the paper. It will then go again in review, the final decision will be made at that stage.
As an additional point to address from the Editor is to compare your reconstruction with recent gridded temperature reconstructions based on instrumental data taking the closest gridpoints and compare with your reconstruction.

with my best wishes

J. Luterbacher

dear authors

I now received two reviewers comments on your revised version. The one has only minor points, the second reviewer has more comments/suggestions that need to be considered in another iteration. Can I please ask you to work on those Points.

with my best wishes and thanks

Jürg

Dear authors
I now got a final review with a few minor suggestions. These can be addressed very easily.
Thanks very much in including them. Then the paper can be accepted.

Best wishes and looking forward to your revised file

Juerg