The data set is obtained from a simulation of the last deglaciation (21 ka before present to present) with the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model version 1.2 in its coarse resolution setup (MPI-ESM-CR). For the transient simulations only the orbital configuration, greenhouse gases and the ice sheet configuration was prescribed. For this simulation ice sheet reconstructions from Tarasov et al. (2012) were used as boundary conditions (exp:pmu0207).