comment ( response to reviewers ' comments ) on : ‘ Deglacial intermediate water reorganization : new evidence from the Indian Ocean ’ by

We would like to thank both reviewers for their positive and constructive comments. It will greatly help to improve the manuscript. Below, we address each of the comments including explanations. Technical corrections, such as typos, grammar and figure corrections will be included directly in the revised version of the manuscript. The original comments are given in italics; our responses are highlighted in bold.

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