Dear authors,
thank you for considering the comments by the two reviewers. Although I do not have the impression that your way of dealing with the ciriticism on correlation analysis might be the final word to advance the field, your arguments and improvement nevertheless support a publication of the manuscript.
Some minor remarks:
"Ice extent ranges between 5 ...": This number is outdated, especially the minimum is an increasingly smaller number. Please adapt and use recent review on sea ice for citation.
Figures: most of them would benefit from major and minor tick marks. For Figure 3 this is mandatory. Include start and end date in caption of Fig. 3.
Figure 1: explain numbers on water depth in caption for clarification; e.g. "Ridge at 20 m": keel depth, water depth, ridge height?
Figure 6: something is wrong with the unit °C, at least in the pdf.
Figure 10: rewrite caption: Phase of complex conductivity measured in 2013 as a function of frequency: (a) from 0 Hz to 95 kHz; (b) from 0 to 200 Hz.