dear authors

thanks very much for addressing the suggestions/questions by the reviewers. Based on your answers, please provide a revised version including the change of the title

with my best wishes and looking forward to your revised version

Jürg

dear authors

thanks very much for the revised and improved version.
Can I please ask you to reconsider the title. As on of the reviewer suggests, this should be changed. The current suggestion is still not appropriate (how wrong..) and should be modified.

Within the first para, could you please also cite the new paper by Zhang et al. 2018
Zhang, H., Werner, J.P., García-Bustamante, E., González-Rouco, F.J., Wagner, S., Zorita, E., Fraedrich, K., Jungclaus, J., Zhu, X., Xoplaki, E., Chen, F., Duan, J., Ge, Q., Hao, Z., Ivanov, M., Talento, S., Schneider, L., Wang, J., Yang, B., and Luterbacher, J., 2018: East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia. Nat. Sci. Reports, 8, 7702; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26038-8

please make sure one more time that all the suggested changes/modifications are incorporated in the revised version.

with my best wishes and thank you very much

Jürg