Interactive comment on “Conceptual Model to Simulate Long-term Soil Organic Carbon and Ground Ice Budget with Permafrost and Ice Sheets

The authors present a very timely and necessary modelling framework for assessing the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) and ground ice (ICE) across the circumpolar permafrost region between the 50th and 70th latitudes. Moreover, the presented SOC-ICE-v1.0 model can be used to produce maps of these distributions at any time point during the last 125,000 years. This is obviously an ambitious task to initiate with, but the authors accomplish in providing modelling tools that have potential to inform about the history and future of permafrost-affected soils. In their recent manuscripts and published works the authors have already assessed future develop-