The revised manuscript is now reviewed by one referee and myself. Overall, the authors revised the manuscript adequately to address the points brought by the reviewers. Nevertheless, the revised manuscript still has some unclear statements and many small errors, which should be revised. Reviewer’s and my notes are, I hope, useful but these notes are not comprehensive. Please make careful read to polish the manuscript.

This manuscript is now accepted subject to technical corrections (i.e. subject to neither another review nor editor’s assessment).

Thanks for choosing TC/TCD to present your work.

Kenny Matsuoka, TC/TCD editor

SUGGESTIONS:
P9-10: Is it better to say “We used an inverse approach to retrieve GF from radar-inferred distribution of wet and dry beds”? The current writing sounds like that the authors made a complicated analysis of the radar data in their own work to tie the magnitude of the bed reflectivity and GF.
L12: local distribution “of radar-inferred basal melting”
L15-16: It is said “two main subregions” at L15 but then “a third one” at L16.
L49: “parameter’s”
L68: typo? “are rare in Antarctica…” Delete “East”
L70: Add a reference supporting a typical length scale of 10 km.
L70-75: Melting spots can be found as spots with anomalously high bed return power, only if the study area includes both melting and freezing regions. If the entire study area has melting bed, then the radar data are not necessarily capable to show the melting spots.
L110: add “today” after “melting occurs”
L145: remove the first “and”
L428: what is the basis to argue “probably up to 3 mW/m2” here?
L436-L437: Do you mean “Hence, considering the duration of deglaciation and strong dependence on the ice thickness, the thermal state of the basal ice may ….”?
L445: “positive GF anomaly”
L469-470: Do you mean “highest (with thinnest ice) DRY points and the lowest (with thickest ice) WET points”?
L532: will now be performed?? Do you mean “is being performed” or “will be performed soon”?
L577: “state”
Table 1 caption: GHF -> GF
Table 1: make the column header consistent; Hc should be Hc +/- sigma.
Fig. 1 caption: change the second dry to “(red)” in the first line.
Fig. 2: GHF to GF.
Fig 3: Add “shape parameter” in front of the italic p.
Fig. 5: change to “Geothermal flux”. Also change the legend in the figure accordingly.
Fig. 6: Change the x axis. Add italic “m” after Basal melt rate”. Again, geothermal flux. Add “shape parameter” in front of the italic p.
Fig. 7: “Averaged past” remains not clear enough.
Fig. 8: Geothermal flux.
L12, 35, 46, 52, …, 548 (and at many other places): Geothermal flux -> GF