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In the above mentioned paper a small error was made in calculating the aerosol deposition fluxes for the EPICA Dome C (EDC) ice core due to the use of systematically slightly too high snow accumulations. Climatological snow accumulation rates are usually expressed in m water equivalent (i.e. snow layer thickness scaled by the density of water), while for ice sheet modelling usually m ice equivalent (snow layer thickness scaled by the density of pure ice) are used. In this case, we erroneously used layer thicknesses expressed in m ice equivalent, but we assumed them to be expressed in m water equivalent. The effect is that the fluxes shown in the original paper were uniformly 8.3% too high and the values in Table 1 are all 0.09 too low. The shape of all plots remains the same and only the amplitude of the variations is slightly changed. None of our conclusions of the paper are affected by this error. In fact this systematic error is small compared to the overall uncertainty of the flux estimate of about 30% as given in the paper. Corrected flux data are presented in a revised table provided as supplementary data. The fluxes given for the EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML) ice core were not affected by this error.

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