To the authors,

I believe you have thoroughly addressed the reviewers concerns, which will lead to an improved manuscript submission. Therefore I invite to submit the revised version including all proposed changes for further revision.

Best regards,
Alex

To the authors:

I believe you have adequately addressed the reviewer comments. Please find several additional minor comments below, which should be addressed before publication.

Best regards,
Alex

In Section 2.2 where the equations are outlined, or directly in Section 2.3.2, I suggest adding the equation for the steady-state age profile as well. Since this is used to determine the best value for m further below, the equation should be stated.

L23: Even the correlation factors => Even if the correlation factors

L24: we can use the GHF values => the GHF values estimated here … can be used as references

L27-28: is associated with sea level changes => can influence sea-level changes

L101: as well as => and

L109, Eq. 5: Please add a reference for this form of the equation, and particularly the form factor.

L119: was designed => was used

L143: are coming from => come from

L257: there no => there is no

L257: drill site => the drill site

L373: we used GA approach => we used the GA approach