Dear dr. Vega,

thank you for providing the answers to reviewer's comments and the revised MS.

It is my pleasure to accept the current MS for publication in the special CP/TC issue, pending technical corrections (see below).

Best wishes,

Michiel van den Broeke



Suggested corrections

p. 2, l. 2: Reformulate. Suggestion: "Satellite methods are compromised by the fact that most of the region is close to equilibrium. Even when..." -> "Interpretation of satellite data is complicated by the fact that most of the region is close to balance: even when..."

p. 2, l. 4: add comma after "Antarctica"

p. 2, l. 5: I suggest changing "Antarctica" into "East Antarctica" and to add "..although the results presented in the latter study are debated (Scambos and Shuman, 2016)."

Reference
Scambos, T. and C. Shuman, 2016: Comment on Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet exceed Losses by H. J. Zwally and others. J. Glaciol. (doi: 10.1017/jog.2016.59)

p. 2, l. 6: to predict with any high accuracy -> to predict accurately

p. 8, l. 23: decreasing trend -> negative trend (please check throughout paper)

p. 11, l. 8: having -> being

p. 11, l. 11: IS still adequate

p. 11, l. 13: based in -> based on