Dear authors,

Thank you for your meticulous revisions that considerably improved your manuscript and satisfactorily addressed most of reviewers' concerns. You can consider that your paper is now provisionally accepted for publication. I have received an additional report from Q. Libois on your revised version, who points out a few explanations that would still need to be clarified, as well as a few typos to correct. Please carefully address these last issues prior to resubmitting your final version.

Best regards,
Guillaume Chambon / TC Topical Editor

Dear authors,

Thank you for this revision. Your paper is now accepted for publication in The Cryosphere.

I have one last suggestion to further improve the clarity of the first paragraph of section 5.1.2. I agree with the reviewer that the main property expected for the ratio $\lambda_2$/voxelsize is not to be constant, but to be sufficiently large. Hence, I suggest rephrasing the two sentences starting by "Ideally ..." into one single sentence:

"For our data, this ratio is 9.8 on average, with a standard deviation of 2.6, implying that $\lambda_2$ can be considered as equally well resolved for all snow samples."

Note also that the following sentence, starting with "The correlation coefficient..." is not completely clear. The correlation coefficient between $\lambda_2$ and voxelsize?

Best regards,
Guillaume Chambon / TC Topical Editor