Dear Dr. Pointner and co-authors,

thank you for submitting "Mapping potential signs of gas emissions in ice of lake Neyto, Yamal, Russia using synthetic aperture radar and multispectral remote sensing data" to The Cryosphere.
We received the comments from two reviewers. They both agree that the study is interesting and relevant for the scientific community. The reviewers provided some useful comments to improve the robustness of the study, which I ask the authors to carefully consider when revising the manuscript. In particular, they ask to i) revise the methods section adding more information about the data and the image processing techniques used in the study, and ii) present, interpret, and discuss the results more critically, properly commenting the limitations of the analysis, and better supporting the hypothesis about the mechanisms involved. In light of the description of the Special Issue to which this manuscript has been submitted, I also ask the authors to expand their comment at lines 119-128 about the implications of their study for understanding the lake-climate interaction, by recalling it in the Discussion section.
Through the interactive discussion, the authors already provided detailed responses of how to address the reviewer's comments. Building on this, I ask the authors to prepare a revised manuscript for a second assessment by the reviewers.

Yours sincerely,
Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Dear Dr. Pointner and co-authors,

We received the comments from one reviewer that assessed your manuscript during the first round and from a new reviewer (as one of the original reviewers was not available for the second round).
They both agree that you thoroughly addressed all the the comments provided in the first round of revisions and that the manuscript is now ready for publication after minor revisions. Please, see the referee reports for the specific comments.

Yours sincerely,
Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Dear Dr. Pointner and co-authors,

It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled "Mapping potential signs of gas emissions in ice of Lake Neyto, Yamal, Russia using synthetic aperture radar and multispectral remote sensing data" for publication in The Cryosphere.

Yours sincerely,
Sebastiano Piccolroaz