Dear authors


please submit a revised version of your MS taking into account all the comments and answers we gave in your reply to the reviewers' comments. Once it is done, it will go for a second round of review by me and one of the reviewer.

With regards

Dear Authors

I'm pleased to announce you that I'm accepting for publication your revised version. Please incorporate the last remarks and technical remarks of referee 1 (pasted below) before submitting the final manuscript.

Joel Savarino





I suggest the authors to use standard format for geographic coordinate, East/West and North/South instead of negative value, 170°W instead of -170°E and 88° S instead -88°N:
Line 38: 170 ° W
Line 157 and 291: 88.1716° S, 170.4765°W

Fig. 2, The legend does not report the regression slope as reported in the caption.

Line 110 I suggest to use snow accumulation, instead of surface snow accumulation, because it is the average value adopted along the depth, during glacial period the snow accumulation has reduced from 30 to 50% respect to Holocene average.

Line 158: “This location is within 10 m elevation and at the same position as the Bamber et al. (2009) defined summit. “the phrase is misleading with line 154, Rephrase

185: “up to 20 cm/yr, in the ice surface trough due, in part, to katabatibc wind steering.” Usually katabatic wind process is correlatd with a reduction of snow accumulation, the higher value on the trough could be correlated with a different thinning function probably due to a different condition at the bottom.