Zanchetta et al provide important new information on the chronostratigraphy for Termination II and MIS 5 of the DEEP site. In their revised version they intensively discussed the very justified comments and questions the two reviewers raised.
The discussion and figure on the newly published palynological data for the site improves the manuscript. The same accounts for the discussion of the sedimentation rate data. Their statements on summer insolation tuning and the importance of independent discussion of the role of seasonality in the context of environmental change are well justified especially in the context of multi-proxy comparison including biological, regional climate sensitive proxies.
I allover consider their revisions to the point and well-argued. The manuscript in its revised version is suitable for final publication.

Dear dr. Zanchetta,
I'm pleased to see the soundly revised manuscript, and can now consider it suitable for full publication.
With kind regards,
F. Wagner-Cremer