Dear authors,
Thank you for the responses to reviewers. Your responses seems adequate and my decision follows the conclusion of the three reviewers: minor corrections.
I would like to draw your attention on two points:
1- I agree with the request of the reviewers 3 to present climate data with PInus for comparison. It is a good idea to place that in the supplementary informations and I will have a look on that.
2- Do not forget to take into account the remark of the free comment that has been posted on the CP site.

I am waiting after the new version of your manuscript to see the adjustments doing in your text according to the remarks of the reviewers. Do not forget to send your manuscript with your corrections in track mode changes.

Best regards

Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout

Dear authors,

Thank you for your revised document. I have studied the corrections and see hat lot of the request of reviewers have been addressed in this version. before accepting your manuscript, I request few little amendments:
1 - You present the curve of ODP Site 977 for comparison with your data. Please take care of the typing of the name of this site in the text and in the figures. It is not correctly written everywhere. For example see Fig. 1 (in the draw) and Fig.7 (it is here corrected in the caption but not in the draw).
in addition in the Figure 7, I think that it is not the right citation for the ODP 977 curve. In Martrat et al., 2014, the curve presented did not cover the whole interval showing here but only from 150kyr to 108 kyr. The paper from the same authors published in 2004 and 2008 are more appropriate here. Please, have a look on the best paper for the citation.
2- In table 1, is it possible to add some ages on the left to have some "tie-points"for the different events. Please do that.
3- I agree with the reviewer concerning the groups cited in the Fig. 2. Hedera is not a tree, same for Cistus. Even if it corresponds to groups published in another publication, I suggest to change that. One way may be to replace "trees" by "forest" or "vegetation" or "formation".
4- Please add for GDD5 (..... 5°C/yr) in fig.3

These changes do not take lot of time to do. So I am waiting after your corrected manuscript to be able to conclude the review process quickly.

With my best regards

Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout

Dear author,

Thank you for your last correction. Your document is now ready to be published.
thank you for having submitted your manuscript to Climate of the Past.
Best regards
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout