Dear Yinghui, dear all,

thank you for your detailed replies to the reviewer comments. Based on your responses, I invite you to upload a revised version of your manuscript to be sent out to the reviewers.

I noticed that you have done so already, and I believe there might have been a misunderstanding: at this stage, you were only expected to reply to the reviewers, a revised version was not needed yet. Hence, please just upload your revised paper again given the instructions provided here.

Thank you very much in advance, and please get in touch if any further questions should come up.

Best,

Dirk

Dear authors,

thanks for the revised version of your paper. I agree with the reviewers that the paper has improved substantially. However, some revision is still necessary to make this study fit for publication.

In addition to the detailed reviewer comments, you might want to go over the manuscript once again to examine if you can further improve its structure to ease its reception by a hopefully wide readership. But this is really just meant as a hopefully helpful recommendation...

All the best, and thanks for the revision.

Dirk

Dear authors,

thanks for the additional work on this paper, including the very careful and helpful editing of style and grammar. I am now happy to accept your paper for publication in The Cryosphere.

Thank you very much for submitting your work to our journal.

All the best,

Dirk