I thank the reviewers for their comments and the authors for their replies. I would like to ask the authors to address the reviewers' suggestion as they suggested in their replies I will then send a revised paper once again to the reviewers for a second assessment.

Best wishes,

Horst

Dear Jeremy and co-authors

I would like to thank you for submitting a revised version of your manuscript "Lessons for multi-model ensemble design drawn from emulator experiments: application to a large ensemble for future sea level contributions of the Greenland ice sheet". Two reviewers have commented on the revised version of the manuscript and both acknowledge the improvements with respect to the first version. However, they also both emphasize that certain concerns remain.

Since the reviewers' concerns appear substantial, I hereby would like to ask the authors to modify the manuscript or to explain why they believe that certain suggested changes should not be implemented.

Thank you and best wishes,

Horst

I would like to once again thank the reviewers for their thorough evaluation of the manuscript. Both reviewers ask for minor revisions and I would like to ask the authors to implement the suggested changes, or to explain why they prefer not to adopt certain suggestions. The revised manuscript and the authors' response will be reviewed by myself, I will not send the manuscript to the reviewers any more.

Horst Machguth

I would like to once again thank the reviewers for their comments and the authors for thoroughly revising the manuscript.

I believe the manuscript is now ready for publication, there is no need for further reviews, neither from the side of the reviewers or myself. However, I would like to ask the authors to implement a few technical corrections before submitting the final files for production.

Best wishes,

Horst Machguth

Throughout the entire document: Please explain abbreviations, or refer to Appendix E (the text has no reference to Appendix E) as early as possible, thereby making clear that all abbreviations/acronyms are explained therein. Currently some abbreviations are explained in the text (e.g. MME on line 5), others not (GSAT on line 122 - note that GSAT is then explained a bit later in the caption of Fig. 3).

There should always a be a space between numerical value and unit symbol (except for °, ' and "). Currently this is handled inconsistently in the manuscript.

line 267: this should be an active citation, "... as in Edwards et al. (2021) ..."

Figure 5: Consider labeling the x-axis on the plot and also indicate the unit. One label would be enough for all subplots as all x-axes are identical. I might not be familiar with certain terminologies and use of symbols: is there a reason behind combining round and square brackets in all GSAT ranges on the x-axis? Elsewhere in the text ranges of values are indicated using square brackets.

Line 303: I might simply not understand the details, but aren't the small GSAT changes below 2.14 °C shown in black in Figure 5?

Line 348: tiny detail, but RCM already abbreviates the word "model"