The Sensitivity of a linear two dimensional Energy Balance Model (EBM) to altered surface albedo and insolation over the last 18 000 years is compared to simulators made with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM). The two-dimensional EBM is a more general form of that described in North et al. and allows for regionally varying albedos of ice sheets and sea ice. It is shown that the EBM's hemispherically averaged land and sea seasonal temperature departures agree excellently with the CCM's in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the seasonal comparisons are legs favorable, although the annual-averaged oceanic temperature departures at glacial maximum agree to within 0.3°C. Since the CCM used prescribed SSTs (from CLIMAP), whereas the ERMs are calculated, our results suggest that the hemispherically averaged glacial- interglacial SST change estimated by CLIMAP is consistent with the altered energy balance requirements of the earth-atmosphere system. Results also suggest that on the ... Abstract The Sensitivity of a linear two dimensional Energy Balance Model (EBM) to altered surface albedo and insolation over the last 18 000 years is compared to simulators made with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM). The two-dimensional EBM is a more general form of that described in North et al. and allows for regionally varying albedos of ice sheets and sea ice. It is shown that the EBM's hemispherically averaged land and sea seasonal temperature departures agree excellently with the CCM's in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the seasonal comparisons are legs favorable, although the annual-averaged oceanic temperature departures at glacial maximum agree to within 0.3°C. Since the CCM used prescribed SSTs (from CLIMAP), whereas the ERMs are calculated, our results suggest that the hemispherically averaged glacial- interglacial SST change estimated by CLIMAP is consistent with the altered energy balance requirements of the earth-atmosphere system. Results also suggest that on the ...