Dear authors,

the two very helpful reviews show that your work is novel and suitable for publication subject to revisions. Please go ahead and prepare your revised manuscript as outlined in your response, including checking the language and grammar. In addition, please add a scale bar to the new figures rather than the scaling factor as the figures will be resized when published. Please also define abbreviations of the lake designations in the figure legends.

Thanks for your submission.
Best,
Tom Shatwell

Dear Dr. Shevnina,

the two reviewers have now seen your revised manuscript and both are largely happy. In addition to some technical corrections in the text and references (in the commented pdf), reviewer #1 recommends you address sublimation/ablation in more detail and make minor corrections to the introduction. Reviewer # 2 has suggested some minor technical changes. I would like to invite you to address these final points, and then I will be happy to consider it for publication. Thanks again for your submission.

Sincerely,
Tom Shatwell

Dear Dr. Shevnina,

I have reviewed your manuscript changes following the second review round and I am happy with how you addressed all the reviewer comments. I have simply made some language edits to the new passages in the "tracked changes" version of your manuscript (see attached pdf). Please incorporate these final language edits and I will accept the paper for publication.

Sincerely,
Tom Shatwell