Dear authors,

thank you very much for your point-by-point author comments.
They do address the reviewer's concerns in an adequate way, which concludes the Discussion phase. We are now looking forward to receiving your revised manuscript.

Please note that the further process for publication in TC depends on the editor’s evaluation of the revised manuscript and will involve a second review round.

Thank you very much again for sending your work to The Cryosphere,
kind regards,

Christian Hauck
Editor

Dear authors,

thank you very much for your revised manuscript, which very adequately addressed all points raised by the reviewers, which are both satisfied with your revisions.
The manuscript can now be accepted for publication in The Cryosphere.

During re-reading I noticed one small typo in line 110/111 "(Kao-Kniffin et al. 2015)" instead of "2005", but this can be corrected during the proof stage.

Many thanks again for sending your work to The Cryosphere.
kind regards,

Christian Hauck
Editor