Dear Dr. Jung:

Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled « The effect of mountain uplift on eastern boundary currents and upwelling systems » to Climate of the Past.

Your manuscript has been read by two anonymous reviewers. While both reviewers recognize the importance of your work, they also ask for additional diagnostics and for more in depth description of the physics of the oceanic model, specifically how the oceanic mixing is treated and which types of mixing are accounted for. Other specific points are the representation of upwellings in GCMs, the comparison to proxies records.

I agree with the reviewers that moderate revision may be sufficient to make the manuscript acceptable for publication in Climate of the Past. Hence, I encourage you to submit a suitably revised version of your manuscript taking into account as much as possible reviewer assessments (as you already did in your answers).

I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript. If you have any questions, please contact the editorial office at editorial@copernicus.org
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Sincerely,

Yannick Donnadieu

Dear Authors,
First, I must apologize for having taken so much time to proof read your revised manuscript. That's now done. The revised version provides answers to the comments of the two reviewers and is now publishable as it is.

Best Regards,
-- Yannick Donnadieu