Dear dr. Goursaud,

thank you for submitting your revised manuscript.

Pending some technical, linguistic corrections listed below, I am happy to report that your paper is now accepted for publication in The Cryosphere.

All the best for 2017,

Michiel van den Broeke


Textual corrections

p. 2, l. 10: Remove ‘data’.

p. 3, l. 3: please replace ‘Consortium’ by “PAGES 2k Consortium’; here and in reference list

p. 3, l. 5: remain -> remains

p. 3, l. 11: a large -> large

p. 3, l. 31: thanks to a -> thanks to

p. 4, l. 1: Stenni et al, 2016). And -> Stenni et al, 2016), and

p. 4, l. 5: due to its -> for its

p. 5, l. 5: remove “punctual”

p. 8, l. 23: were -> was

p. 8, l. 24: Antarctic -> Antarctica

p. 9, l. 32: None of these -> These

p. 11, l. 29: observe -> we observe

p. 12, l, 22: type “outputsin”

p. 12, l. 23 and throughout the MS: p=2.2E-2 -> p = 0.022

p. 16, l. 33: O.63 -> 0.63

p. 17, l. 7: twice smaller than -> two times smaller than OR twice as small as

Together, Sections 4 and 5 contain too much overlap, are too long and therefore cumbersome to read. Please go through Section 5 carefully and eliminate all text that is not strictly necessary. Avoid repetition.