Dear Dr. Burgard, dear co-authors,

Please, ensure that updates on the terminology made in the companion paper (part 1) are reflected in this revised manuscript as well. Also, I hope that you nicely tackle the challenge of reviewer 2 by adding a new paragraph in your conclusion section.

At this stage, please, submit your revised manuscript with the edits you have already shown in your responses.

Regards

Dear Dr. Burgard, dear co-authors,

I thank you for the work done on the revised manuscript, which can be accepted for publication. However, in my view, the following item may be further improved:
- I particularly noticed it at the last sentence of page 13, “[…] in the SICCI2 and NASA Team simulations, and higher in the Bootstrap simulation.”. I suggest using every time the term already used elsewhere (including on the next page) “assimilation run” to read: in the SICCI2 and NASA Team assimilation runs, and higher in the Bootstrap assimilation run.

Regards