Dear Reviewer, First, on behalf of all the authors, I would like to thank you for your precious suggestions that contributed for the overall improvement of the manuscript. Please find attached the new version. We would like to point out that in the first version there was a mistake in the calculation of the Fe and nssCa fluxes for the NEEM ice core. We repeated the calculations and the mistake is now fixed. However, this correction does not affect the interpretation of the dataset. We also

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... ded in Table 1 , the nssCa concentration and fluxes since we referred to them several times in the main text. We also introduced in the method sections more details about the analytical performances C1