By providing absolute age control for UPG tundra gleys, the chronostratigraphy of Nussloch overcomes circular arguments between climatic cause and paleosol type for the UPG in Central Europe (Moine et al., 2017;Rousseau et al., 2017a), supporting a chronological framework for detailed reconstructions from KW2015 (section 5.5). For the MPG, a TG ¼ GI model requires further age control and regional differentiation. Recognizing a milder MPG and colder UPG for Krems/Willendorf is suggested to reconstruct stratigraphic features of last glacial LPS. Our results underline the coupled significance of local topography, regional paleoenvironment, catchment morphodynamics, and large scale paleoclimate in interpreting marked differences in local loess stratigraphies. Additional studies of spatially distributed LPS are required in order to regionalize past climate changes and to understand how local and catchment environments respond to these changes. These reconstructions require detailed stratigraphic information from field logging supported by high-resolution color and GS **data** and a careful use of paleoenvironmental proxies.