Dear Kirstin Hoffmann and coauthors,
Thank you for submitting your answers to the referees' comments. All referees agreed that your work is an important contribution to studies of Antarctic climate. Based on your reply, I can see that you have addressed most of the concerns and made substantial changes to the manuscript. I therefore invite you to submit your revised manuscript.
In light of the fact that the manuscript has undergone substantial changes, I am sending the manuscript into review again.
Best,
Nanna B. Karlsson

Dear authors,
Thank you for submitting the revised version of your manuscript. See attached referee report from the second round of reviews. Only some minor revisions are now required to proceed with the publication process.
I look forward to receiving an new version.
best,
Nanna B. Karlsson
Handling editor

Dear Kirstin Hoffmann and co-authors,
Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript. I am happy to recommend your manuscript for publication, however, I have a few technical corrections (listed below) that I ask you to implement first.
Best,
Nanna B. Karlsson, editor


- data are plural. Please check manuscript for this
- the phrase "delta-values" appear several times but it is never explicitly stated what "delta-values" mean. Is it just the delta-18-O or also the delta-D?
- please rephrase lines 14-15 on p.3. The use of () is confusing especially since the last set of parentheses are an abbreviation unrelated to the other parentheses (I know this style of writing is used more and more but it is not good practice). Either write two separate statements about the effect of warming and cooling, or only write about the warming and then state that the opposite is true for cooling.
- line 29, page 3: Specify what "They" refer to. SST?
- line 10, page 4: Delete "yet" - consider adding "before" instead
- line 42, page 4: Define AWI
- line 23, page 5: One parenthesis too many
- line 37, page 6: What is the temporal resolution of the ERA-interim product?
- line 15, page 9: "specifically" -> "specific"
- line 3, page 12: What is meant by "facing"? please rephrase or elaborate
- line 29, page 13: "Analogously" -> "Analogous"

- Figure 10: add red star for UG site